
My dreams will often have similar incidents recurring throughout. The computer program scenario can be believed due to the many times the narrative is interuppted with code, such as: If this is what is happening, or has happened in the past, the computer program has jumbled up different experiences, or some of the uploaded memories could be dreams that different people had, or dreams that had been told to the person uploading his memories.

The war is supposedly against the invading aliens, the krestge, nicknamed roaches due to their appearance. Several times a person suffers a head injury, in at least two cases from scaffolding falling on them, another is due to a war wound. Maybe it's just a dream, or a sequence of dreams, either naturally occurring or the result of a traumatic accident. Presumptuously, I'd say there could be a different way to interpret it. As the novel's characters struggle to survive apocalypse, they are sustained and challenged by the demands of love in a shattered world both haunted and dangerous." The program’s data, however, has been corrupted. If you take the publisher's blurb as the best indication of what this book is about, you would conclude it is a hard-SF tale of alien invasion and human sacrifice - "A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love.

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