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Kim is sleepwalking through life. She has everything she needs: a decent apartment, plenty to eat, a close-knit circle of friends. She is comfortable, but is she happy? No, not really. And then, one day a seemingly innocent lark sends her life spinning out of control, and nothing will ever be the same again. Follow Kim on her journey of self-discovery as she learns the dark and disturbing secrets of the companies and their AIs.

To the Creshe Empire, I’m just a number. I’ve spent the past five years in isolation and under study. With my home razed by a Syldrari attack, my mind damaged, and nothing but white walls and a viewing window around me, I dedicated myself to two things: training my body, and reading any book they allowed me to have. The Empire wants me to serve, to use the inhuman power the Incident stirred within me. Technically, they asked, but it wasn’t much of a choice. It never is. Serve, or...I refused to be a mindless slave. My life was taken from me once. Never again.

A broke gamer. A deadly online world. Can Dahlia level up fast enough to keep the debt collectors at bay? Dahlia has to pay off her dead father’s bills or risk her life in the lithium mines. Which...no thank you. Besides, the world is run by tech, and this gamer girl is determined to explore the virtual world her father was so obsessed with - and get rich while she’s at it. So, she sells everything and rents a premium VR pod to play Eternal Online. Enter the toughest realm available? Check. Discover the fastest way to loot without dying? In progress.

The 33-year old game designer Dex Walsh spends an entire year devoured by sorrow after the death of his wife. As a last-ditch effort to regain his joy, he sells everything and joins Overtaken Online. Expecting to spawn in a noob-friendly area with guidance from his personal assistant, he instead finds himself naked and alone in a dark prison cell rapidly filling with gas.

Era Gualtieri lives his life on permanent hard mode. His right leg is gone, his hometown was bombed into toxic waste, and he's elvish in an age when pointy ears are the mother of all "kick me" signs. He's spent the past four years hopping trains and shoplifting just to survive, with only his flying sword to keep him safe. Now, he's suddenly the only guy on the planet who's legally allowed to stop the new Dark Lord.

Es ist wirklich kein Vergnügen, in der Virtuellen Realität gefangen zu sein, vor allem, wenn man dabei im Körper eines toten NPC steckt. Noch ist nicht alle Hoffnung verloren - sofern John die Schriftrolle der Wiedergeburt findet. Doch das allein reicht noch lange nicht, denn wie man sie benutzen kann, ist eine ganz andere Frage.

A mysterious new player has entered the competition, claiming to be Julian's friend Emma. It takes Julian only a single match to see the new pilot's skill. The imposter is capable of imitating any pilot, even masters of the game like Vile and Vermillion Angel. Julian had hoped he and his friend could fight side by side. Instead, she sold her spot to a competitor. It's the aspiring professional pilot's first taste of the ruthless business world of Overdrive.

Definito dal magazine Leggere Distopico un "piccolo capolavoro", "Mindlag" di Giorgio Borroni è un breve romanzo di fantascienza cyberpunk riservato, per alcune situazioni descritte, a un pubblico maturo. Bog è un impiegato che vive un'esistenza monotona fra i soprusi dai superiori, robot spioni che controllano il suo operato in ogni momento e piccole vendette da parte dei colleghi per ingraziarsi i capi. I suoi amici di un tempo, con i quali condivideva sogni e lotte tra gang rivali, adesso si sono omologati e hanno rotto ogni rapporto con lui.

James Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has. In his case, that includes a lively spirit, a sadly diminished magical talent, quick wits, and good knowledge of the twists and turns of Seattle’s dingy streets and back alleys.

Down these dark streets…Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool. Jimmy Kincaid, though, calls it home. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a Puyallup brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, that it’s a place of life, magic, and starving hope.

Betrayed, injured, and alone in an unfamiliar city, newly awakened cyborg Treeka needs to escape her captors. They left Meeka, her wounded twin sister, to die in the streets. Treeka will do anything to prevent that outcome, even bargain empty-handed with the local mob. Her next objective: find a means to repair Meeka’s cybernetic implants.

The Blind Spot exists in defiance of Scala City’s dystopian big brother regime. It occupies a small sector in the city, and those who live there believe in the right to privacy. Scala City believe if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. But the Blind Spot have hackers that could bring the larger city to its knees. This is why it’s never spilled over into all-out war. Until now...

For as long as Dragon can remember, he’s lived in a lead-lined box. It might be for his own good, but he’s under no illusion he’s still a prisoner. Nuclear war has left the world uninhabitable. With radiation levels so high, the only way to survive is encased in lead.

The Reality Beneath is a collection of short stories written by SULI Daniel Johnson. They are written in his distinct brand of science fiction that can be defined as stories that make you think. The Reality Beneath encompasses a good example of SULI Daniel Johnson’s unique style. He takes current topics and situations and looks at them from a new perspective. The genre is technically science fiction, yet quite often, it comes very close to reality broadening the perspective to look at things in a new way. It includes:

In a future New York City, the Augamani Corporation dominates all aspects of life. Unemployment is non-existent because being employed is mandatory under the law, and a factory maintenance technician named Ylan works hard and proud for his salary. He, like everyone else, has no reason to complain about anything. Yet, when unforeseen events begin to threaten the stable life that Ylan enjoys, he is faced with a grave challenge. Does he try to maintain and preserve that which he already has? Or does he let go of the familiar?

Felix thought the game was over - turns out it was just beginning. When the game makes its first appearance in weeks, Felix can barely believe it. However, a quest relating to his father’s whereabouts is something he just can't ignore. He soon finds himself on a class field trip to Cityburg where he hopes to find the elusive professor Stein and learn the truth. Then the fuzzing begins. But feral pigeons, slime monsters, and big city thieves are the least of his worries. Felix and his friends realize they are not the only players in the game.

Cadence, the extraordinarily powerful Song Mistress, is back for the final installment of the Uniworld Online Trilogy! Joined by her friends in-game, she embarks on a journey to, somehow, bring peace to Uniworld - all while avoiding attempts from her own faction to kill her.

Would you want the power to live again, to escape death, but at the cost of losing everyone you ever loved? What if the eyes really were the windows to the soul, a gateway to immortality? Quade Harrison discovers he can do just that, cheat death, after he is fatally shot in the year 1886. As he dies, staring into the eyes of a notorious woman who tries to save him, he is consumed by the desire to live again, transfixed on her gorgeous green eyes.

Born into wealth and privilege, Jenny Watson left her parents’ way of life behind when she volunteered to go fight the shifters. After giving up her commission, she arrives in Linden hoping to make a fresh start and put her medical degree to good use. But when her friend and fellow passenger is murdered, Jenny finds new purpose working with Detective Sharlotte Holmes.

There's nothing more to say. My escalating feud with my family and my need for sweet revenge leaves a single course of action. Kill the leader of the Family, the legendary, all-powerful Manticore. He's one of the most guarded men in New Angeles, but I have a plan. Too bad it's the craziest, most irrational plan ever, but it's all I have.