Elysium Accumbens

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>‎Elysium Accumbens </em><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is part space opera part murder mystery part love letter to role-‎playing games and part philosophical treatise on the nature and utility of pleasure. The ‎novel follows a spaceship on a forty-two-year mission to colonize another solar system. Its ‎crew are fourteen disembodied brains in tanks wired together to live in a virtual reality ‎bound only by their imagination. Amidst an unravelling mystery and heated arguments ‎over how they will build a civilization from scratch the characters contemplate what it ‎means to build a meaningful and productive life when one can instantly realize any desire ‎or whim with almost no consequences.</span></p>