Science Fiction Virtual Reality

Geo thought that the only thing he'd ever be is a miner for SMB... ...but his new best friend is closer than he ever would have thought! While intergalactic space mining might sound like action and adventure, it's pretty much a drag. Geo Statler's job with SMB Mining is the only job he's ever had, which isn't a surprise since there are only three employers left on Earth! It's going nowhere, though, since the 'E' in his job title doesn't stand for 'essential', but rather, 'expendable.' After a gas venting mishap leaves him with a symbiote inside of his brain, Geo finds his life, and loves, ...

Tech leaders warned AI is an existential threat to humanity, but not in the way you've heard until now. (Science Fiction AI Artificial Intelligence Action Adventure Technothriller Crime Mystery Futuristic Technology - Book 1) (Winner – 2025 Pacific Book Award - Best Science Fiction) (Finalist 2025 19th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards – Science Fiction) (2025 Honorable mention San Francisco Book Festival and Firebird Award– Science Fiction) Government agents and criminals are dying in accidents involving self-driving cars or everyday circumstances. The deaths don't seem random....

The Realm Lee Jordain Jerrold Partington and Cassie Young met under quite unique circumstances. Jerrold had just been interviewed and selected by representatives of a special consortium of universities wishing to award a collective grant for the study and development of merging virtual reality and artificial intelligence with hypnosis. And Cassie Young had been among three applicants selected to be interviewed for the position of research assistant, who would be selected the following day by the newly named chief researcher. In the midst of this chaotic chain of events, they happened to ...

Haunted by mysterious visitors, a young man embarks on a lifelong quest to unravel their enigmatic presence, thrusting himself into a journey that challenges his understanding of reality and sanity. His relentless pursuit takes him across the realms of parapsychology and quantum mechanics as he grapples with the haunting question of their purpose in his life. After years of uncertainty, the elusive visitors finally disclose their identity and unveil a profound mission for him. As this revelation unfolds, his existence transforms dramatically, steering him toward a destiny he could never ...

Bestselling author Jason Hutchinson is at it again! Wes is a bit of a Virtual Reality Junkie... ...but things are getting a tad bit confusing. Wes works at a high-tech startup, but what he really wants to do is work on the VR system he's been developing in his apartment. For a shy introvert like Wes, actually chatting up some of the gorgeous and entirely unobtainable women at his office is a virtual impossibility. Well, maybe not in Virtual Reality! After his college roommate sends him some special software updates, Wes finds that he's having a hard time deciding what is real and what is ...

When Arthur sat down to write the greatest detective on the planet, he had no idea he was also writing the name of whom would one day become also his best friend in real life. Oh, thee adventures that Conan is about to embark on as he joins with Sherlock Holmes to foil crimes and criminals larger than life and darker than the shadows. A novel that carries on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, but lifts him into a whole new category of Urban Fantasy Mystery and Suspense! Science fiction at its finest!

In a world where the sky is gray, the rivers are empty, and the cities lie in ruins, Brielle is a lonely wanderer, scavenging through the desolation in search of something—anything—that resembles hope. Haunted by fragmented memories of the life he once knew, he trudges through the endless beige of humanity’s collapse. But his solitude is shattered when he meets Cali, a mysterious young woman who sees impossible threads of light leading toward the “blue”—a color, a place, an idea that might hold the key to salvation. Their journey takes them through the remnants of society, where...

This is the 2nd novel in the 6-book VANISHING LAWYER SERIES about John Carverton, a retired Canadian lawyer who suddenly found himself plunked into his hometown in a parallel world in which he had never been born. John witnesses a car accident near his dumpy apartment. Someone with both power and money wants John to lie about what he saw. Since lawyers never lie, John is thrown into a complex and dangerous series of events in which he must keep his unique secret hidden from the government and the media. The last thing John wants is to be some sort of circus freak in this alternate realm. ...

On Christmas Eve, 2017, the life of Russian-American artist Nikita Nataniel Kuznetsov changes beyond recognition. He’s plagued with a deadly bacterial infection that sends him off to the afterlife. Before he can move on to the other side, he must stand trial that takes place in a concert hall, attended by an invisible audience. As he sits at his piano, he is compelled to watch a 3D movie of his life, allowing him to relive meaningful events: his miserable childhood at a boarding school in the USSR of the 70s, his rise to stardom, his run-ins with the KGB, and a fateful breakup from his ...

The hot new Lieutenant is after Scott... ...but is any of this real? It was just an ordinary field exercise in the desert for Specialist Scott Abercrombie. His days had three cycles; work, sleep, and guard duty. Each were spent within reach of his incredibly cute and quirky crush, Zoe, though he hardly ever got to see her. It took the loneliness of guard duty to break the monotony, but not in the form of his dream girl. Instead, the break took the form of the gorgeous and unapproachable Lieutenant Ayn. From there, things started becoming far from ordinary! Will Scott find out what's real ...

Ready Player One meets The Hunger Games In a dystopian future, Morrow Adams strives to escape his corporate-controlled existence on Earth. Logging into the hyper-real VR game called The Binding, he plays it to break from the limitations of his real life. But the real-world implications of the game can lead to something greater... or something much worse. Few have crossed the elusive Binding in the game, but if you do, real-life opportunity awaits—physical passage to a new world. But the same corporation that Morrow tries to escape from on Earth also controls the virtual game world—a ...

✅ The Becomings: Convergence Beyond Evolution 📖 Book 3 of The Becomings Series A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller About Human Evolution, Consciousness Integration, and the Ultimate Confrontation with Reality 🌀 The convergence has begun. Patterns are awakening. Time is collapsing. 🌀 March 15, 2035. It’s not just a date. It’s a threshold. Reality across the planet is unraveling—clouds spiral into golden ratios, information collapses into patterns, and entire populations are integrating with forces they cannot comprehend. Dr. Nathaniel Kessler, once exiled as a madman, watches his...

Between Cade and Rae is an ancient wall so huge its edges are lost to memory. There’s no way through. But one precious stone brings them together to share their horrors of the past, and dreams of the future, and to shake their notions of what is false…and what is true. Wallflowers is an ethereal, alternate-reality short story that will get you thinking about the battles we choose to fight, and those we don’t, and the power of breaking through barriers for a better tomorrow.

From Emmy and Peabody Award winner Evan Mandery, MOSAIC is a sci-fi murder/thriller that explores the implications of technology that’s just around the corner. MOSAIC is a virtual-reality platform that allows participants to jointly relive past experiences. When Lindsey Rudin, is killed inside MOSAIC—and also dies in real life—her murder sends shockwaves into the real world and the simulation, in which she has lived for nearly three years. MOSAIC is told from two characters’ perspectives: Lindsey Rudin and Mark Collins, a broken down, alcoholic police officer who, weeks before his ...

Robinette Thornburg, the half-human daughter of ultra-rich Robert Thornburg, thought she was fully human, just weird, for the first twenty-one years of her life. She went to expensive private schools, then Harvard. On her twenty-first birthday, she learned that she was half Mangi, the result of an encounter between her father and a primitive near-human woman from the Wild, an alternate reality North America where primitive humans arrived half a million years ago, but no modern humans ever did. That was the first she had heard of Mangi or the Wild, closely held secrets of the wealthy ...

Earth is governed by Corporations. Automation has made unemployment normal. The work ethic has been replaced by interactive virtual reality. Yet within ten years the population will exceed the ability of the infrastructure to feed everyone, and it will all come tumbling down... unless a productive solution can be achieved. In Volume 1 (Modulus) Paul Harden attempted a solution and failed badly. In the process, he destroyed an entire planet, killing almost all of its settlers. Now Harden is on the run, an escapee. He has a hole card he believes in, a way back to what he believes is his ...

Louis Parker is the divorced father of two teenagers who is still trying to find his life's purpose. After losing his job, Louie' financial situation convinces him he has nothing to lose if he agrees to test out a radical new virtual reality video game for a substantial fee. But Louie quickly learns that virtual reality is a lot more complicated than he realized. By the end of his seven days, is Louie trapped in virtual reality forever? If he is able to return to his own reality, is it the same one he started from, or has it immeasurably changed.

Braving Britannia is an oral history of the groundbreaking PC video game, Ultima Online, which launched in 1997 and still operates today. The audiobook features interviews with players as they share how the game affected their lives. In a fantasy world of limitless potential, the only thing players seem to enjoy more than playing the game is talking about it, and yet, the true stories behind the avatars have largely gone unpublished for the past 20 years. Until now.

In a world yearning for a brighter future, "The Futurist: The Unsuspecting Architect of Our Future Reality" beckons you to embark on a soul-stirring odyssey of transformation and wonder. Meet Evelyn, a seemingly ordinary woman whose journey transcends the boundaries of imagination and possibility. Guided by mystical whispers and enigmatic mentors, Evelyn unearths her true purpose—to design a world where humanity's radiance and potential shine unbound. With courage as her compass, she dares to confront the shadows of history, weaving the threads of compassion, unity, and creativity into a ...

Overworld. It's more than just the world's most popular e-sport - for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it's a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you have a connection to the Internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible.