Virtual Reality Fantasy

Finn Harris should have been the one to die. But he wasn't - his wife took his place. What was worse, he only had himself and his company to blame. They let their passion outpace their prudence, determined to revolutionize the world. While all innovation comes with a price, he never imagined it would cost him Rachael. Nearly a decade later, Finn is content to hole himself up and wait out the rest of his life. That is, until his daughter intervenes, forcing him out of his grief and into a new virtual reality game developed by his old employer. They're calling it Awaken Online.

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, ...

He’s quiet. Creative. Craving something more. Then temptation walks into his office. Elias lives a quiet life—his books, his job, and a secret imagination he never dares share. But when Kyle, his new and dangerously attractive colleague, shows up… fantasy starts bleeding into reality. They’re complete opposites. Elias is careful, shy, and guarded. Kyle is confident, teasing, and totally off-limits. One snowstorm. One unexpected night. And everything changes. But Elias isn’t sure if he’s chasing something real—or running headfirst into heartbreak. 💬 "Elias’s Fantasies" is ...

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 ...

T-Rex? Check. Terror birds? Check. They all want to kill you? Check. Corter Laurence beat the odds to get selected as a contestant for Darwin's Quest, the most popular reality show in the galaxy. All he has to do is outlast his other 15 castmates and the money and fame will be his. Darwin's Quest is not for the faint-hearted, though. The show is beset with dangers, both natural and man-made, and the winner truly is the "Ultimate Survivor." Although each season is a little different and has its own theme, initially, the show proceeds as can be expected. Contestants are eliminated, and the ...

Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration. Contains The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective.

A technological tale of terror. An exploration of artificial intelligence and simulation theory. Journey into the abyss of the human mind and discover the nightmares that await you. Imagine human consciousness transferred into a simulation where nightmares become vividly real. Within the immersive confines of the simulation, neuroscience student Dade Simmons embarks on a transformative journey alongside three fellow students. An unforeseen calamity befalls the students when a sinister force, long-dormant inside Dade’s psyche, is inadvertently unleashed inside the simulation. As the ...

A Tale of Fantasy and Magic Rockwell believes his eight-year-old daughter Sydney has a very vivid imagination. She sees the mythical Fae: fairies, goblins, sprites, pixies, and other magical creatures. She sees them, talks about them, and plays with them, but every instance feels like a knife in Rockwell's gut. His daughter sees all the mythical creatures in the stories told to her by his late wife, Sarah, reminding him that Sarah is gone. These stories are folklore handed down through the generations and all that his daughter has to cling to of her mother. He has no idea how to help his ...

In the riveting third installment of the Beyond Reality's Edge series, Breanna faces her most perilous challenges yet … When a cunning enemy from her past threatens to plunge her fragile world into chaos, Breanna's courage is tested as never before. Another Gorum has found her and laid claim to her. But there is a debt attached to her life, for the life of the Gorum council member she killed – Xaltov. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy and monsters on her doorstep, she must outwit powerful foes and confront the ghosts of her darkest nightmares to save her team … and the man she loves....

Helgi the Tracker and Valkyrie Freya journey into the Frostspire Mountains in this LitRPG erotic fantasy, facing ice-forged puzzles, abominable snowmen, and seductive snow elf warriors under moonlit ice lanterns. With Skjöldr’s Moonlance in hand and their bond reforged in passion and battle, they must win the allegiance of the Snow Elf Queen—and ignite an army to stand against Lokiia’s encroaching shadows. BONUS 18+ Pictures at the end of the book

Three short stories about five young people find themselves moved from Earth to other worlds where, to their surprise they find magic exists and actually works! Much of what the locals call magic is actually what we of Earth call science but it works and allows these young people to live and prosper in their new home. In “Transplanted Wizard”s, our young gamers, nerds or geeks all, are driving home from a gaming session when, somehow, they are transferred to a world with two moons. Unable to return home, they discover the magic they ‘learned’ in their games allows them to work and ...

Renetta Rich never believed she would see her girls again. Getting whisked away after she was murdered by someone from her past, she finally gets the chance to bare her sole and understand why this has happened to her. Finding who was behind her husbands demise, she sets her wheels in motion to avenge his death. Her girls have no idea what’s going on and now that the killer is out in the open, they embark on another adventure of getting to the bottom of why once again. With insult adding to injury, the lives of K.K., Izzy. & Tra are dragged right from under them with K.K. finding out ...

The Last Portal When fifteen-year-old Lyanna Ravencrest hears the Portal Bell ring in her mind—though it remains silent to everyone else—she knows something is terribly wrong with the magical network that connects all worlds. For three centuries, her family has served as guardians of the ancient portals, watching children answer the Bell's call to become bridges between realms. But now the connections are failing, entire worlds are going dark, and children with old magical bloodlines are vanishing from their beds without a trace. The Great Houses of Valdris blame House Ravencrest for ...

A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever. Few science fiction sagas have achieved the level of critical acclaim - and best-selling popularity - as Tad Williams's Otherland novels.

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 ...

Leo loves online gaming. Unfortunately... ...it killed him, though that's not the whole story! Intransia VR's new system had a bit of a malfunction... Leo is a gaming addict. Whether it's an MMORPG, a nice first-person shooter...doesn't matter. That is, until a programming glitch overloads his brain, leaving him trapped in the Intransia VR platform. When his new AI guide, Gina shows him all the fun he can have living purely online, he becomes an all powerful alpha-male, living to serve his own carnal desires with all the lusty, unprotected babes his mind can dream up! Well, that's before he...

Leo loves online gaming. Unfortunately... ...it killed him, though that's not the whole story! Intransia VR's new system had a bit of a malfunction... Leo is a gaming addict. Whether it's an MMORPG, a nice first-person shooter...doesn't matter. That is, until a programming glitch overloads his brain, leaving him trapped in the Intransia VR platform. When his new AI guide, Gina shows him all the fun he can have living purely online, he becomes an all powerful alpha-male, living to serve his own carnal desires with all the lusty, unprotected babes his mind can dream up! Well, that's before he...

Dying in virtual reality isn't fun, but facing bullets from real-world criminal overlords is really the pits. In such a desperate scenario, their demand to render them a service in VR doesn't sound like such a bad alternative. The problem is, the games played by spook agencies follow much harsher rules. For them, the absence of choice doesn't sound like a good excuse - not if you end up in the grindstones of their undercover schemes.

Immortal Flame is a dark urban fantasy that journeys across time and space to reach (literally) an earth shattering conclusion. Zack Palmer wants to be a rock star during the 1980s. Arabella DeGigne is a fifteenth century witch, newly born again, bent on revenge. Can they join forces and both get what they want? Cornelius Urquhart is a medieval mage who must travel across the unseen cosmic dimensions to prevent the evil Maleus from destroying the universe and gaining control of The Other Ben, Zack's long-suffering brother, is on a mission to save the beautiful Ruby, Zack's ex, so she can ...

He says he saved her. So why won’t he let her go? Fiercely independent Catherine Alexander-Blair, Cat to her friends, doesn’t scare easily. But after the Celtic fiddler is attacked leaving a performance, she wakes terrified and tied to a gurney in a dungeon. With scant memory, sanity threatens to shatter when her handsome, silver-haired captor claims not only to have rescued her but to be an eight-hundred-year-old vampire. He insists he’s protecting her, but when her undead guardian demands her obedience, Cat defies him at her own peril. When her magical abilities start blossoming, ...