{"id":560,"date":"2011-07-19T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=560"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:15:26","slug":"head-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/head-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/505420578\" target=\"_blank\">Line, D. L. <em>Head Trip. <\/em>Valley Falls, NY: Matinee-Bold Strokes Books, 2010. Paperback. 187pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-60282-187-3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-561\" title=\"Cover of Head Trip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Head-Trip-e1311099266776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"309\" \/>It is the year 2039. Shelby Hutchinson is 27 and is in charge of the Information Systems Department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She lives a boring life and is considered reliable by her friends and coworkers, a reputation that she both likes and dislikes. Her only recreation is a video game about the cold war in 1985 Berlin that she plays with Jake, her best friend. Jake realizes that Shelby is tired and overworked and recommends she take a virtual vacation. Head Trip, a virtual travel service, promises a vacation that lasts only a few hours in real time, but which the vacationer\u2019s brain believes lasts a full week.<\/p>\n<p>Intrigued and excited, Shelby decides to reenact her video game adventures and takes a virtual vacation to Berlin in 1985. In the process of smuggling a prototype grenade launcher from West Berlin into Russia, Shelby meets a beautiful Russian spy named Tasha. Together they survive sewers, trains, and a roll in the hay until they finally arrive in Russia. Something goes terribly wrong and Shelby is jolted back to reality in Head Trip\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby begins to experience seizures and blackouts. After one episode in a coffee shop, Shelby and Jake meet Trish Aronoff, a journalist who helps them investigate the cause of Shelby\u2019s health problems. Shelby has to step outside her comfort zone to find the solution to her problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Head Trip<\/em> is published by the Matinee Books imprint of Bold Strokes Books, which is their romance imprint. The novel is just as much an action\/adventure story however, and the time travel and virtual reality themes qualify <em>Head Trip<\/em> to be classified in the science fiction genre. The premise of <em>Head Trip<\/em> is similar to Philip K. Dick\u2019s novelette <em>We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,<\/em> which was adapted into the film <em>Total Recall<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At 187 pages, <em>Head Trip<\/em> is a fast-paced enjoyable read, perfect for a day or two at the beach. The romantic scenes are somewhat explicit. It is recommended for fiction collections at libraries in lesbian friendly areas and college and university collections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Head Trip <\/em>is also available in Kindle and Nook editions and in various electronic formats from the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Paul Hubbard<\/strong><br \/>\nRetired Public Reference Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line, D. L. Head Trip. Valley Falls, NY: Matinee-Bold Strokes Books, 2010. Paperback. 187pp. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-60282-187-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}