Moderation

Description:

A love story for those who loveSeverance(both Ling Mas book and the unaffiliated Apple TV+ series). . . ambitious, challenging, and brilliant. Elle

A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplacebringing Castillo's trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love.

Girlie Delmundo is the greatest content moderator in the world, and despite the setbacks of financial crises, climate catastrophe, and a global pandemic, shes going places: shes getting a promotion. Now thanks to her parent company Paragons purchase of Fairgroundthe worlds preeminent virtual reality content providershes on the way tobecomingan elite VRmoderator, playing in the big leagues and, if her enthusiastic bosses are to be believed, moderating the next stage of human interaction.

Despite the isolation that virtual reality requires from colleagues, friends, and family, the unbelievableperks of her new job mean she can solve a lot of her family's problems with money and mobility. She doesn't have to think about the childhood home they lost back in the Bay Area, or history at allshe can just pay any debts that come due. But when she meets William Cheung, Playgrounds wry, reticent co-founder (now Chief Product Officer) and slowly unearths some of his secrets, and finds herself somehow falling in love, shell learn that history might be impossible to moderate and the future utterly impossible to control.