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The Game

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Originally Published under the name Lee Pletzers litRPG Not everyone wants to play the part of a good guy. Since the beginning of time, she has lived. She took a breath, walked the Earth, watched the emergence of man. Unkind animals with puny hearts. They were strange creatures that feared her, attacked her, trapped her in a cave. The ice age locked her in, so she went to sleep...and awoke as a digital virus trapped in a game she unknowingly helped create. Divorcee, Phillip McKenzie, is a man obsessed with creating a video game like no other currently on the market. He has invested five years into its code and the release date is looming. Investors are screaming. Time is up. And the virus strikes. Phillip is dragged into the game-world and locked in a dungeon with one ultimatum, find a way for the virus to escape the confinement of the virtual world. Secretly, the virus is in love with him and hopes he will join her and together they can rule the outside world. But her advances, both sexual and power driven are rejected. She must look to the outside world for leverage. And she finds it in the form of his daughter. Struggling with life, Lisa uses virtual reality to lose herself. The arrival of free access to The Game from her father, together with the visor needed to play, gives her another avenue for escape. However something dark is lurking in the game, a living virus, and when Lisa's brother Timmy is pulled into the VR World, she must play to save him. With time running out, Phillip battles to overcome the virus, and Lisa with her small group of gamers fight to save Timmy's life and reach the end of The Game, where human and non-human will battle for reality. Scroll up to get this book. Also available in paperback. SF / Fantasy / Horror Simply amazing story about a world where virtual reality becomes reality -- Malina Roos Made the moral and emotional dilemmas more real than real -- John Ling The Game is a breath-taking SFFH where the inventor of a virtual reality video game, and his children, are pulled into the game, literally, by a living virus - who wants to use them to help her escape the game and join the real world.

Author Biography:

Lee Pletzers is a displaced New Zealand writer of the weird, wonderful and grotesque. Since 2001 he has made an impact on the genre world and thrives within its limitless boundaries. Over seventy shorts stories have slammed his name on anthologies and magazines across the globe. Five novels impacted humanity and two novellas were the icing on the cake. He still sends his books out to independent publishers, looking for that elusive million dollar cheque. Lee Pletzers Facebook: https: //www.facebook.com/lpletzers Twitter: http: //twitter.com/threeand10 Daily Motion: http: //www.dailymotion.com/lpletzers Website: http: //whendreamsbecomenightmares.com
Release date Australia
June 24th, 2010
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
484
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9781452850450
Product ID
37806856

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