The story takes place at a fictional boundary-pushing West Coast social media outfit – a walled garden of cutting-edge tech, employee benefits and great parties.
Along with the appendices and an "archive" of materials at the University of Dundee (an ongoing installation by her artist sister Merran Gunn), these blur the fictional boundaries and disrupt the main melody with a suitably flat fastidiousness.
"It's about everyone's individual perception of reality, their life background, circumstances, and social status, all this stuff creates fictional boundaries that aren't there actually; laser beams create a grid that is visible, but you can cross it if you want".
Of course not, but that's part of the joy of the book, the sense that you're inhabiting a fictional universe whose boundaries you can't reach.
Photographers in particular have a knack for crossing fictional and galactic boundaries, including Cédric Delsaux's invasion of thr French suburbs and Vesa Lehtimäki's intervension into the Scandanavian countryside.
We may accordingly distinguish two main sorts of theories, depending on whether one is willing to take the problems at face value (realist theories) or to bypass them altogether, treating boundaries as fictional abstractions of some sort (eliminativist theories).
Even with "Laura" in her present state, Brian Boyd, your father's biographer, has said the book nevertheless contains wonderful, boundary-pushing "new fictional devices".
In his latest novel, published in English as Outlaws (the Spanish title is Las Leyes de la Frontera – Laws of the Border), the boundaries between historical precedent and fictional creation are again suggestively tested, as is the often impregnable social boundary between those born into a life of poverty and the lucky few who are protected by even modest family privilege.
Aware is so elaborate that a fictional law firm from a different ARG has jumped the boundaries to become part of this one.
Easily the most unpleasant character in "The Love Machine," Gordon Eriksen's malicious satire of cybersex, is the movie's pushy prime mover, Becca Campbell Marlene Fortee), a fictional documentary filmmaker who doesn't know the meaning of the word boundary.
