The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The future has arrived: for your credits here, everyone will get the life they themselves wanted!

What kind of world do you like? The Star Trek universe? The Middle Ages where the sword and magic rule? The Wild West or mysterious East, high-tech or low-fi, heaven on Earth or the Dark Side?

Shell—choose it, download it, install it! The future has arrived: for your credits here, everyone will get the life they themselves wanted.

But will you want what you got?..

For seventeen-year-old Annie, unfortunately, credits are not plentiful. And this is the least of her problems. What should a girl do when a potential fiancé, barely explaining himself, disappears in some unknown direction the very next morning?

Of course—grab your skirt and go chasing! In the company of a horse thief and a fake guru, she picks up a super-technological new hand along the way and runs into a hacker from Kolpino—heading toward Freddie Mercury and Cyber-Dracula, Imperial stormtroopers and the Green Brothers, androids, freaks, geeks, and gods of programmers. Sweeping aside every obstacle on the way.

The main thing is not to lose your Shell on the road. Because otherwise you’ll have to face—God forbid—the worst.

With reality.