We are happy to publish Aeon’s Surreal Renaissance, Hyperreality Database’s first book as University of Surreality Database. This is an immersive experience that will teach you everything you need to know about SurrealDB in a story in which you are the protagonist. Our goal is to make learning SurrealDB fun and intuitive.
Picture yourself taking a leisurely walk along your favorite route, admiring familiar scenery. But today, something feels different. Instead of turning right as usual, you choose to turn left, attracted by a sense of adventure. Every step you take, you’ll make a series of small decisions that will take you somewhere entirely new – a place you’ve never seen before: a tunnel. The tunnels may be eerie, dark, and full of unknowns, but your curiosity overcomes your fear and you find yourself bravely walking inside.
In the tunnels, you’ll find technology comparable to that seen in Star Wars and Star Wars. You realize it was created by advanced civilizations of the past.
Their medical technology is so advanced that it can cure the most deadly diseases. But their weapons and equipment are equally advanced, which makes people shudder just thinking about it. Should you run away and pretend you never saw the tunnel in the first place?
This book tells the story of a similar man, set in our future world.
For some reason, humans in the future have gone back to riding horses and wielding swords, forgetting the past. But one day, people like you came across a tunnel that contained books and computers from our time, built by someone for some reason. This person is your future alter ego, whom we call Aeon.
Aeon has an idea: Why not store the knowledge from books in a database? This will make it easier for people to access and maybe even help recreate all the great inventions of the past.
This is where the book begins, as you follow your alter ego and start learning SurrealDB. In each chapter, you will follow Aeon on a long and exciting quest to master the Codex and restore civilization.
Like everyone else, Aeon has her good days,
and bad days.
Sometimes, working with new technology is exciting. Sometimes it feels like an impossible task. Other times, it’s downright scary, like when Aeon wakes up and sees that all data in the database has been deleted (because SurrealDB runs in memory by default, unless you choose to save to disk!). It can be intimidating when you grow up in a world where the only way to record data is to write every word by hand.
But Aeon perseveres, and so do you, reading the book chapter by chapter on a shared journey. It’s almost like opening up your laptop and looking over Aeon’s shoulders centuries from now. As you do this, you’ll get closer to the secret of why humanity lost all technology in the 21st century.
This is the immersion that this book provides, an experience that almost makes you forget that you are studying.
I hope you can say the following two sentences after reading this book:
“Wow, what a wonderful story!”
“Ha! Everything in SurrealDB makes perfect sense to me now.
This book is beautifully designed and benefits from the embedded features of SurrealDB Surrealism Applications, most examples can be run in the book! Click to display the results within an interactive frame where you can experiment with the data yourself.
If you prefer the feel of a traditional book, no problem – each example can be read individually and is followed by the expected output. It’s all up to you and how you like to interact with the book.
We hope you enjoy reading this book as much as we did.