With Twitter and Elon Musk grabbing the headlines lately, and with all the rage about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Chatgpt chatbot, the time for a virtual reality novel has finally arrived.

About ten years ago, then still writing as Koos Kombuis, the author started writing a short story on Twitter, tweet by tweet. It soon turned into a novel... a short novel, but a novel nonetheless! It was a challenge because tweets were limited to 140 digits in those days. It took Joe a few years to complete his story, and it attracted a lot of attention at the time.

This ‘micro-novel’ describes an imaginary future society and the role of social media where people are literally living inside virtual reality to the extent that they are unable to distinguish virtual reality from real life. The story unfolds in the now somewhat archaic terminology of 2013, at a time before Mark Zuckerberg announced his plans to create Meta!

‘Twitter Dawn’ is an evocative, humorous and thought-provoking story which fits right into the present-day debate about all things IT and AI!

After more than two decades as musician and cultural troublemaker, Joe Kitchen (also known as “Koos Kombuis”) has discovered a new niche as author of books for young people.

Hubert the Useless Unicorn is a fun-filled modern version of the ancient ugly duckling tale, and is a self-illustrated publication that will be enjoyed not only by children, but by everybody who is young at heart!

Joe Kitchen describes Sushi with Hitler as a “burlesque fantasy”. It is a delightful satire, written in Douglas Adams’ style, that pokes fun at everything but the kitchen sink. The author describes the book as “completely irrelevant” and its beauty lies precisely in the escape it offers from everyday problems. It questions the status quo on just about everything and none of society’s holy cows remain untouched. Be prepared to be treated to a myriad of intertextual jokes, involving everything from classical literature to pop music.