Nora's Cyberverse

By Nathan Gemmell

The story is like Alice in Wonder Land, and Dante's Divine Comedy. The Character, Nora, travels through the 13 worlds and learns to be better than what she once was with the help of a traveling companion, Em.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
• Release date: Oct 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781619506930

Nathan Gemmell

Nathan lives in the Derbyshire Peak District in the UK. He lived with his parents and two sisters and in 2019 he successfully moved into his own flat.He is a young man with high functioning autism.He struggles to speak his thoughts and feelings; he finds it difficult to meet and socialise with others. Writing enables him to express himself, to verbalise his thoughts and feelings.He is caring, he has a great dry sense of humour, and he is very creative.He enjoys writing imaginative short stories that incorporate some of his personal feelings and his past adventures. He also enjoys building clay and plasticine figures. He gives these figures individual names and character back-stories and then he writes short stories about them.He attended a mainstream school but he found school difficult. His classmates were extremely supportive, but children from other years and classes not so much. Despite this he continued to attend every day and he was given an award for the pupil who had made most advances in his secondary school.He tries to not allow his autism to stop him from fulfilling his dreams. He has travelled widely and has even swum with sharks.This is Nathan's second book, about one of his characters, and follows 'Ruby Crab'.

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Contents

Copyright

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

About the Author

Nora’s Cyberverse

by

Nathan Gemmell

All rights reserved

Copyright © April 14, 2022, Nathan Gemmell

Cover Art and Illustrations Copyright © 2022, Nathan Gemmell

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Lockhart, TX

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Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or the publisher.

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ISBN: 978-1-61950-693-0

Published in the United States of America

First eBook Edition: October 29, 2022

Chapter One

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This is the story of a child prodigy named Nora. She had amber skin and auburn hair but very little social life, not that it bothered her—she detested socializing. She found most people annoying, idiotic, useless, or some combination of the three. She hated having people asking questions, being nosey or trying to tell her how to live her life. Only when they praised her accomplishments did she ever enjoy being around people. They called her a narcissist.

She spent most of her childhood in the attic, which was also her room, working at her desk with her monitors. The attic had its own bed and toilet as well as a dumb waiter for delivering food and drink, which she kept in a built-in fridge/freezer. Her project had occupied her for more than a year. She was part of an online cult of geniuses. Apart from them, she had no ties to other people, not even her parents and siblings. To her that was good… good for her, especially for her peace of mind. It enabled her to focus more on studies and work than on time with her family. Her family often asked her to spend time with them, but she refused. When she was in a bad mood, she would snap at them, Go away!

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Nora had been home-schooled since primary school and had dropped out long ago; she knew more than her teachers, so she didn’t feel she needed them. As a small child, she was building technology that was decades ahead of its time, solving problems that no adult expert could solve. And so she spent most of her time in her room with her monitors, or building something brand new when she got bored. Sometimes she lay on her bed reading newspapers. She wasn’t interested in current events, but the daily horoscopes amused her. They were something she’d discovered online, and horoscopes soon became her favourite hobby. Her sign was Virgo.

After she dropped out of primary school, her parents, displeased, decided to hire a tutor from a university. The tutor was quickly fired because even she couldn’t teach Nora, and Nora didn’t like her much besides. Working with that tutor was a waste of time, time she could have spent at her desk.

After the tutor left, she stopped bathing, feeling it was something she didn’t need since she was shut off from society. Her hair became dishevelled, and she kept wearing the same black trench coat, dark grey clothes, and brown leather shoes, which gradually became dusty like the attic.

She also wore scary shiny glasses and a backpack made of silver with built-in moving coils that helped her move around the attic. As she continued with her studies and building her inventions, her time away from people fuelled her selfishness. Only through her chat room did she have contact with others, and she began to spend even less time on that. However, she did learn about their theories.

At times it seemed to her that only she existed; everything else—the world outside, the people in it—were part of a dream. Perhaps that is what inspired her to study the simulation hypothesis. She started to wonder whether the world was real or whether it was virtual—God’s video game. Why shouldn’t she do the same thing as God? She was already ambitious, seeking praise, so the idea of becoming a goddess appealed to her. What purpose could there be to life for her, apart from her own personal pleasure?

After she came of age, she moved out of the attic to live on her own. She used the money from sales of her inventions to buy a micronation east of Great Britain called Sea Land. First, she took the train. Before she got on board she enjoyed a nice hot drink, but she didn’t enjoy the large noisy crowd. She thought there would be fewer people at that time of night. An idiotic drunk football fan was staggering home with his friends. He walked backward into Nora, causing her to spill the hot drink on her face. Angrily, she pressed the cup into the man’s face, knocking him backward to