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Old 05-17-2018, 05:28 AM   #27188
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I finally started reading Who Is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? (by Andrez Bergen), and I'm about a third of the way through it.

As one would expect from the title, it's about a city where superheroes are getting killed off. The trouble is, there's a lot about the first fifth of the book that doesn't make much sense - but then, when the reader is belatedly clued in to something all of the characters know, the puzzle finally comes into focus. I'll put it in a spoiler tag, but I regard this more as Very Useful Information - to the point that I've considered restarting the book so I can apply the missing knowledge to that first section.

Spoiler:
The setting is not a true world-with-superheroes. It's a freeform VR game that the superhero characters are playing, and the "regular people" in Heropa are high-quality bots. The supers' deaths are real, but caused by neural feedback from the in-game killings, and the setting and bots reboot every day. So, kind of "Dark City" and "The Matrix" meet "Ready Player One" in City of Heroes.


I do not intend to malign the book - I just wish the author had mentioned this info much earlier. Not doing so made the book appear much more poorly thought out than it actually is.
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