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Peter May Virtually Dead

For Susie

“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.”

— Gérard de Nerval, nineteenth century French poet

“That’s where we are living here, inside all the dreams of people — big and small, great and petty, beautiful and awful.”

— Argent Bury, virtual world resident

There is no RL, only AFK.

— Jamie Jervil

Acknowledgements

My grateful thanks for all their help in the writing of this book go to Grant Fry, Lead Forensic Specialist, Orange County Sheriff, Coroner Department, California; Susan Mathews, for allowing me the use of her home in Corona del Mar; and Second Life residents Leigh Gears, Doobeedoo Littlething, Mistie Hax, Therence Akina, Mugginss Boozehound, Mikelec Criss, Anin Amat, Angel Walpole, Biglurch Habercom, Fand Flaks, Gunslinger Kurosawa, Reyne Botha, Jackycat Sands, Sable Greenwood, Iona Kyle, and Karq Flow.