Alexander Besher Books In Order

Publication Order of Virtual Reality Books

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Alexander Besher is an accomplished published author.

He was born in China with parents who were white Russian who raised him in Japan. Today he is based out of San Francisco.

Alexander has been serving as the editor in chief of the Chicago Review and has come out with a line of Japanese mystery novels by Akimitsu Takagi. He has also served as a contributing editor for Infoworld magazine. He has also been a consulting futurist for Global Business Network on Pacific Rim Affairs. GBN is an international research group that likes to specialize in the area of corporate scenario planning.

Rim is the first novel in the Virtual Reality series by Alexander Besher. If you’re someone who really enjoys creative science fiction and you always have an appetite for unique stories with their own flavor, you’re most likely really going to like this book.

This is the World of Rim, set in the year 2027. Greenspace is busy patrolling the cosmos. Meanwhile, Gamespace has had the bad luck of being infiltrated by Tibetan zombies and tantric viruses. The information superhighway is making lanes through everyone’s brains.

Everyone may really like the interactive sushi as well as the way that virtual reality seems to have the power to unite Tai Chi students with masters who have long been dead, but are they also prepared to face the drawbacks that come with all of this new stuff and technology? There’s no guarantee that it’s safe and neural technology always comes with the possibility of going haywire. The consequences may be close to deadly, but they’re also going to be very entertaining in the process.

Never mind something like word processing. This is a world of straight up consciousness processing. It’s just a sideline of professor Frank Gobi, but under him the downloading of human psyches transforms into a lucrative hobby when he ends up getting recruited by the Satori Corporation.

Satori is the largest multinational in the world, and maybe not that surprisingly, it also manages to be one of the creepiest. It knows that Gobi is the only one who is capable of the things that they need. This extends to tracking down their CEO (who has gone missing), get the missing algorithm back (so that they can bring back online the crashed virtual reality metropolis), and end the public relations and health nightmare.

Gobi also thinks that he is the only person who is capable of rescuing his son and is one out of the many thousands of Satori customers who has found themselves trapped online inside of a game. Games used to be no risk, but things just got a little realer than anyone could have accounted for. Will he be successful or is this just a mission that was never guaranteed to be a success? Read this book to find out!

Mir is the second novel in the Virtual Reality series by Alexander Besher. If you thought that the first book in this series was entertaining and a lot of fun, check out the original science fiction adventure to follow the dynamic first with Mir. From start to finish, this is a fantastic story that you don’t want to miss.

You may know that Mir is the Russian word for peace and stands in for meaning one world. Meanwhile, this name has also take on a new meaning as it is being used as the code name for a piece of neural software that has the capacity to change the world. Unfortunately, it has gotten out and is carrying a virus that could end up changing the world permanently.

It is the year 2036, and the world is having to deal with an all new cold war. The Berlin Wall has been pulled back up and not only that, concentration camps have made a comeback and have been recreated. It’s a familiar conflict with new twists put on it, as this is going to end up being a battle to control cyberspace and the Wall, and both camps are virtual.

It also a time when epidermal programming is actually the cutting edge fetish that is taking place between the finger dwellers who belong to the hacker underworld. These programs are sentient tattoos that have the capability of traveling online and doing tasks for their owners on the Net. They are also able to move from different body to body in techno-pagan rituals (which are forbidden but carried out anyway).

With the Mir virus out and loose, things have gotten even worse since it is now making its way traveling as a passenger hopping a ride on the tattoos. Just like the ink, Mir is able to move from consciousness to consciousness, body to body, individuals to entire nations, and offline just as efficiently as online. This means that its options just got bigger and it also means that there is nothing and no one out there in its path who can consider themselves safe from it.

Trevor Gobi is the son of Frank Gobi, the legendary and notorious virtual reality investigator. He’s on the trail of Mir and also has a personal reason to track it down. His girlfriend Nelly has gotten infected thanks to a tattoo that takes on a phantasmic form of its own as it is inside her body and threatens her existence and the entire World Wide Net.

This is such an interesting novel and a worthy sequel of rim, which was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award. It has been called a book that is ‘destined to become a classic’ by Paul Saffo (director of the Institute of the Future).

Mir allows Besher to put forth a complete vision of a future where the virtual and online life has developed to become as real and important to people’s survival as regular old reality. It’s a thriller that is full of imagination and is sure to be a classic in the science fiction cyberfuture genre that it is pioneering. In a class of its own, be sure to check out Mir and see what you think!