Author Bill Kirton with his book..."Alternative Dimension."

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MEET BILL KIRTON:

Bill was born and brought up in Plymouth but has lived most of his life in Aberdeen, Scotland. He’s been  a university lecturer, actor, director, television presenter and RLF Writing Fellow. He’s written plays, songs and sketches for radio and stage as well as several novels, two of them satirical, one historical, one for children and a series of five police procedurals. He’s won 4 awards and been long-listed for another. He’s also written five books for students on writing, study skills, and work skills.

                                    

Joe Lorimer is a genius. His finest achievement is the online role-playing game Alternative Dimension, but he sees it as more than a plaything. He’s fascinated by the freedoms offered by living in a virtual world, and the more sophisticated he makes his creation the more superior it seems to the alienating, faceless, ugly realities of daily life. 

Insinuated virtually into his creation he exposes many of the psychological secrets of the folks behind the avatars. There are lovers, killers, crazies, animals, elves, vampires, even Health and Safety inspectors. Their stories are mostly wry observations on the lives we all live and the real societies they live in. 

Joe's fascinating attempts to bring the real and virtual together, to fuse the person and the avatar, lead eventually to an outcome which seems a far from ideal solution. Depending on your perspective, the ending is either a triumph or a tragedy.

Book Review: ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONS. By DrDx.

Don't read this book if you suffer from any condition or syndrome in which laughing, perhaps aggravated by rolling on the floor madly roaring, is associated with sudden cardiac arrest. For Alternative Dimension is packed full of incredibly funny writing, breath-takingly impertinent jokes, in-your-face puns and bizarre situations piled one upon another in surreal chaos. Fortunately for the health of Bill Kirton's rapidly growing army of fans, it's shorter than War and Peace (although as thoroughly researched) and the structure is deceptively simple at first glance. However, layers of erudite allusion and multiple meanings lie packed below the smooth surface, such that a detailed and scholarly commentary would be a challenge well beyond the abilities of this particular reader.

The sustained quality of the writing and the remorseless flow of invention confirm that Kirton is a master at the height of his powers. I'm keeping my options open for the moment, but it certainly seems possible that as Charlie Parker was to jazz, Bill Kirton is to humour.

Link to purchase: http://www.thorstruckpress.com/alternative-dimension.html

Website and blog: www.bill-kirton.co.uk