Fantasy Online

I’ve always used video games to get me through the hard times, especially throughout my mother’s terminal illness. Tasked as not only her caretaker but my little brother’s as well, I long to give them a better life and save my mother’s in the process. This is why, on the day of the Kingsman Online Regional Championships, my ranking in the horror shooter Dystopia is so important. But just when I think I have my ranked placement in the bag, a rolling blackout sweeps the city, leaving me not only devastated in the present, but hopeless about the future.

John Crussel has established himself as one of the most powerful players in the game, known in Alterlife as Ace the Great. But his quest for freedom came at a price. By unleashing the virus, thousands of lives were lost, and their blood is on his hands. Time has passed, and with it, the deaths seemed to have stopped - the virus is no more. Prosperity has returned to Alterlife, and to John's life. But the Gamemasters haven't forgotten about Ace the Great and what he has done.

Three days before his high school graduation, Jacob Milroy learns that the military draft has been reinstated. With a war raging on the other side of the world, he realizes that he might soon be thrust into battle. But then a groundbreaking contest within the immersive virtual reality game, Solaria Online, is announced by its visionary creator, a man who has grand plans for the human race. The prize for four lucky winners: recruitment into the Mars Colonization Initiative (and exemption from the draft).

I MADE IT OUT ALIVE. I'd earned my right to escape. The first boss was dead. FREEDOM. Yet, the pain remains. It's not over. I LOGGED BACK IN. Things are different. I fight not only for strangers... NOW I FIGHT FOR FRIENDS. The hacker took someone precious. I'm not leaving until he is defeated.

Jason was looking for the next big thing in his life. He successfully created a corporation and now he needed something new. He did not expect to find it in the next biggest gaming craze. Now he is trapped with no way out. How will he survive and what will his new life bring him in the process?

When Cassidy Delgado’s latest MMO threatens to be a flop and a sizzling spectacle, her career is on the line. As the chief orchestrator behind the game, she’s among the first to dive into the sultry sensations of the new cutting-edge sensual suit. However, when hackers sneak into her in-game spacecraft, she’s saddled with more than just a virus—a heady cocktail of forbidden allure.

Cassidy Delgado knows every lurid inch of Interstellar Online. But the brilliant software architect behind it all bristles at an update forcing her to respec as an unfamiliar class. And when a rogue AI bot goes on a rampage, she’d better master her new abilities or die trying.

In a land devastated by plague, invaders, and lawless brigands, magic has all but disappeared, and the masses live in misery and depravity. But a strange young maiden appears with a powerful gift and a promise to restore the rightful king to the throne of Orloins and a magical order to the world. But her gift may come at high risk - to herself and her people.

It's the end of the world, and evil zombies have taken over! Try convincing Malchus of that when he can understand and communicate with them...The whole world is thrown into chaos as zombies take over and survivors are left to fend for themselves. All they know is that zombies bite and make more zombies. To them, it's shoot to kill and survive. Not so to Malchus, who has a unique ability to communicate with zombies. They speak, he listens! He attempts to share this knowledge with his fellow survivors only to be shunned by them. Malchus may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Celina has long adventured in the mystical world of Everscape to balance the dreariness of her everyday life. When the Quest for the Heavenly Seal Staff begins, those she had thought to be friends, turn on her. Their guilds war against one another for the prize. She must use her wits and magic to overcome insurmountable odds. Deadly enemies both large and many, hold her hostage finding new allies is the only way she can reclaim her life both inside and outside of Everscape.

Seit über zwölf Jahren prämiert Deutschlands größte Online-Publikation für Phantastik, das Corona Magazine, in jeder Ausgabe eine von einer wechselnden Jury ausgewählte Kurzgeschichte. In der Reihe "Phantastische Gutenachtgeschichten" veröffentlicht der Verlag in Farbe und Bunt ungekürzte Fassungen dieser wunderbaren Kleinode - vertont von im Genre bekannten Sprechern. Umrahmt von Musik zum Träumen bieten die sechs Geschichten die ideale Unterhaltung vor dem Zubettgehen.

Jaxson Rooks thought it was just going to be another quite night at home with the wife. It is never that easy in the life of a Terran contractor, when they learn that their two daughters have been kidnapped along with his father-in-law. Now it is a race against time as they have to track down the Red Dragon company, who Jaxson has deep ties to, and find where they are holding their family. It's not like anyone would expect a Terran Scientist would bring guns, lots of guns. Not to mention his secret weapon.

Warriors don't always win, and good does not always prevail in a world of war and bloodshed. The young maiden that was once the hope of a nation has fallen to the enemy, and the king continues his tyrannical reign over a once great land of magic. While all hope appears to be lost, old ones begin to awaken at the shifting tides of the world, and they could be the final turning point of it all.

Of all Amun-Ra's children, it is Sekhmet who is most feared. She is one of his fiercest generals and known for her savagery on and off the battlefield. Yet the warrior who fights the hardest also loves the hardest, and when the end of the war is finally at hand, she is eager to return home to the man she believes is waiting for her. Betrayal strikes when she least expects it, reminding Sekhmet that while she may have her uses to the kingdom of Egypt, there are those who simply take her for granted.

Shiloh was simply a girl coasting by, waiting for the day she could leave her old life where she didn’t quite fit in and find herself. But she gets her wish sooner than later, when she gets lost on her usual walk in the woods and crosses a bridge, only to find herself attacked by strong little creatures with hissing voices and sharp teeth.

Nevia was born into her coven and feels the strength of their blood bond every day as she learns her craft. Part of her training brings her to an historic library that is kept by a human couple and their two sons. When tragedy strikes both the coven and the human family, Nevia must make a decision. Should she risk everything to protect the innocent humans she has grown to love...or blindly follow her coven's new king?

As if there wasn’t enough on Buck’s plate, what with him and his girlfriends suddenly running one of the biggest clans in Echo, the steady rise of in-game conflict has begun to spill out into the real world, both in his work and relationship, as old faces come back into the picture seemingly just to complicate things. Join Buck, Jane, and Sam as they take the helm of their newly massive guild, plot their revenge against the Hallowed Kings, and figure out what they’re going to do about their real world woes.

Yue Fei finally receives his very own egg, but when the white dragon hatches, it is received as an evil omen. Fleeing his country to protect his dragon, he finds Cajsa also fleeing her home. Running from an arranged marriage and her overprotective mother, Cajsa feels the only way to fix her life is to find her father, the illusive assassin Whisper.

El juego comienza cuando Matt y sus amigos se embarcan hacia una misión en el colegio esperando encontrar agua para abastecer a su grupo. Matt descubre que los zombis no son los unicos depredadores en Zombie Wars Online. ¿Será capaz de mantener la cordura, o la desesperanza del juego lo hará perderla? Zombie Wars Online combina lo mejor del horror y los juegos en un siempre cambiante mundo donde cada episodio nos presenta un nuevo trauma inducido por hackers a una ya horripilante experiencia de juego.

Avic has landed himself in prison, being tortured daily, after his friends left him with little memory as to what had happened to them after an impulsive search for treasure caused a cave's near collapse. Soon, rescued by his escape artist assassin friend, affectionately referred to as Whisper, Avic finds out the truth of what they found in the cave as he watches a kingdom in chaos, the sky falling, and their third companion missing.