Dreamscape Global focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) storytelling through fiction, poetry, screenplays, and Linkedin articles to prepare for the coming era of 3D/4D “Multiverses” reflecting our multicultural, multiracial, and transgender global society. As an urban/environmental planner and VR serial entrepreneur, I envision possible futures. My novels open in the Inferno of urban dystopias and struggle through political Purgatory to achieve ecotopian Paradise a la Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Enjoy the ride since our futures depend on our vision and efforts!
SF Japantown Tales
“SF Japantown Tales” is a novel series about revitalizing San Francisco’s Japantown culture and commerce after the pandemic. This series consists of eight novels:
“Kimono Minds” is a comedy about a zealous Kyoto kimono designer who is threatened with eviction by San Francisco and confronts the mayor in a major media showdown in front of city hall. Based on fears of upcoming evictions, this novel explores the harsh financial realities facing small shopkeepers in one of the last three remaining Japantowns.
“American Kabuki” explores how Kabuki Bank of Osaka struggles to reinvent itself in downtown San Francisco by turning its empty office tower into an “Akihabara West” maker place, co-working space and electronics bazaar.
“Solar Jive” is a rollicking tale about undergrounding Geary Blvd. to expand Japantown and Lower Fillmore by creating a new Unity Plaza adjacent to the Peace Plaza pagoda with solar sculptures to attract visitors in the evenings and winter months. As usual, nothing goes as planned in “Barbary Japantown” due to politics and competing groups. Enjoy the ride!
“Bunraku Knights” is a tale about talking with the dead to tell their stories using AI avatars, which museums are introducing now, including the Japanese National Museum in LA’s Little Tokyo.
“Noh-Noh Girlz” follows three fashion design daughters rebelling against their mother, a traditional Kyoto kimono designer, by launching their own brands for Goth, cosplay and AI avatar street fashions for young people.
“Bop City” imagines how the Fillmore could be revitalized by under grounding Geary Boulevard, which destroyed the Black and Japanese communities from the 1950s, and creating a long park, walkways, music and dance malls, shops, museums and affordable housing. In 2025, the City began exploring the opportunities and soliciting community input.
“Bio Fashionistas” – San Francisco reinvents itself as the Regenerative Fashion capital to overcome its Doom Loop. Facing a close election, Mayor Tiffany Wong-Gonzalez and her aide, Steve Durbin, engage the Morioka family, the leading kimono designer on the West Coast, to rally the City’s fashion designers with imaginative fashions that integrate recycled textiles, plastics, and household items with biomaterials, such as hemp, banana peels, mushrooms and palm leaves.
“Noh Games” — Yumi Morioka, a Cal PhD candidate in computer science, creates an AI dating app that features Noh masks, but daters wear them to protest ICE detentions. In a cat-and-mouse race to avoid legal problems, she constantly changes her approach. Will she be able to innovate faster than AI and its users? Join the fun during this “Summer of AI” gold rush!
Available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGFZKYWN?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tpbk_tkin
“Gaiapolis” novel: climate action in San Francisco faces repeated disasters
Available at Amazon: https://a.co/d/egqEPYQ
“Gaiapolis” is based on my how-to planning book, “The Gaiapolis Strategy,’ which provides an 8-year roadmap for urban decarbonization and climate justice that will enable cities, towns and bioregions to achieve their UN Special Development Goals (SDG). Cities consume 80% of energy and emit 70%+ of carbon so we will lose the carbon battle in our cities, towns and bioregions in the coming decades. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4XBHV9S?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_3T9JQ3XA7ZNWS3ZHRZYE_1
“Virtually San Francisco” VR novel series
Novels available at: https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-San-Francisco-Sheridan-Tatsuno/dp/1545488908
#1. Virtually San Francisco: San Francisco challenges virtual reality (VR) developers to reinvent the City. In his comedic fantasy novel, you’ll meet an international cast of creatives — a Swedish dog therapy shaman, a Japanese solar goddess, an Iranian earthquake creator, an Ohlone urban planner, a NASA satellite mapper, and others — who meet their challenge: designing a homeless shelter to please the mayor who has surprises in her back pocket. Join the ride into the virtual future!
#2. Uniquely San Francisco: In this comedy sequel, VR creators are tasked to build a virtual mall to generate revenues to finance the gold-plated homeless shelter they built in the last hackathon. All is going well, but their mall is attacked by cyber-hackers and the fun begins, with surprises at every move and countermove.
#3. Soulfully San Francisco: The mayor challenges VR developers to create Virtual Fillmore in order to memorialize the “Harlem of the West” during its postwar jazz glory years and help the City’s struggling retailers. In this sci-fi comedy, they create a call-and-response musical that attracts a billion viewers, leading to a feeding frenzy among investors seeking the next tech unicorn. But first, the developers must fight off cyber-hackers…
#4. Divinely San Francisco: In this modern retelling of Dante’s Divine Comedy, San Francisco scrambles to help rebuild East Bay communities destroyed by wildfires, which leave half a million climate refugees homeless in the streets of San Francisco. The City’s heroes deploy tent towns, cruise liners and virtual reality (VR) to organize the recovery before rainstorms hit.
#5. Virally San Francisco: The mayor challenges VR developers to create powerful graphics and experiences to save struggling retailers, artists, nonprofits and schools shut due to the City’s Covid-19 lockdown. To her surprise, they rally and create a Virtual San Francisco shopping mall featuring Chinatown history, 1940s Fillmore jazz, 1950s Beat poetry readings, 1960s Summer of Love music concerts and even virus research — until hackers threaten to shut it down. But the mayor, a former Navy pilot and computer whiz, mobilizes her allies to defeat them in an exciting cops-and-robbers face-off.
#6. Zenfully San Francisco: San Francisco’s Japantown struggles to survive during Covid-19 lockdown. Facing evictions and bankruptcies, a task force asks a VR master to save local merchants, artists and nonprofits by creating a Virtual Japantown mall and entertainment complex. To their surprise, he and a Japanese solar sculptor create a stunning Obon dance festival that attracts millions of online customers in an unforgettable tale of redemption, survival and love.
#7. Beatfully San Francisco: In a modern retelling of “La Boheme”, an ailing social marketer organizes a climate musical based on Dante’s “Paradiso” to employ her evicted artist friends but must lead them to paradise in a Virtual Paradiso after Covid-19 shuts down all public places. It is her love song and farewell to San Francisco.
#8. Fashionably San Francisco: In a San Francisco’s Chinatown faces a host of challenges — Covid-19 lockdown, anti-Asian hate crimes, failing small businesses, gentrification, evictions, and new hidden surprises. Mayor Tiffany Wong-Gonzalez, a hardcore gamer and former Navy pilot, launches a virtual reality (#VR) hackathon to save Chinatown, but her political rival, Bill Ting, unleashes a corporate-financed Virtual #China. The rivalry heats up. Can Mayor Tiffany save Chinatown with the help of her #gamer buddies?
#9. Haightfully San Francisco: San Franciso’s mayor launches Virtual Haight to celebrate the 1967 Summer of Love and reinvent it with VR/AR as the Summer of Love 2.0, where K-12 students are challenged to explore the dark and light sides of 1967 and learn their past to prevent making the same mistakes. A “Rashomon”-retelling of the Summer of Love. Coming soon!
#10. Cosmically San Francisco. San Franciso’s Mayor Tiffany-Wong Gonzalez faces a tough re-election challenge. To win voters, she launches a Virtual Mars challenge to boost K-12 STREAM (STEM + Arts for Resilience) education so students can qualify for top colleges and high-paying jobs. But her rival, Cal grad Bill Ting launches a massive Red Mars with the support of corporate spon
Poetry
San Francisco Cantos: A Japanese American Odyssey of Four Generations
Land of a Thousand Dreams: San Francisco during the 2010s
CHAOS: A Climate Tale
Ghost Cities, Floating Cities
Books available at: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Sheridan-Tatsuno/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ASheridan+Tatsuno
Linkedin Articles
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