Virtual Reality Fiction

Kenna Sharma is an engineer, not a hero. Her job on the clandestine Deep Look space station is simple: follow procedures, fix what is broken, and do not ask questions. But during a routine spacewalk, a two-second glitch in reality shows her the impossible: the stars are a lie, and her station is a cage. Back inside, the world feels wrong. A hairline crack appears not on the glass, but in space itself. Her crewmates begin to forget shared memories, their personalities fading into a placid, smiling emptiness. Kenna is being gaslit by her commanders and haunted by a horror that does not kill...

They steal people; farm them in the bowels of the earth like cattle, leaving little hope for humanity to survive. Against the odds, they fight to stay alive. They are the Noor people. (BOOK 3) SYNOPSIS __________ Left to die in the freezing, underground tunnels of an abandoned moon base, grievously injured, chained and fettered to the walls, how are the Noor to survive? And if they somehow break free, is there a way out? When they find, Bom has destroyed the jump portal, and imploded the huge bay doors, from which the last huge ships escaped into space, it appears there is no way out. Will ...

A body is no match for an idea.Esteemed NYC anchorwoman, Margi Hall, spends her days reporting on the lives – and lies – of others. When the studio cameras show her imperfections, she seeks out a scientist who extolls his secret technology using nanobot implants. Instead of capturing her youth, she finds herself in another woman’s body on another planet. And no one must know.Margi begins her new life embodied as wife to the young CEO of a biotech empire whose greatest achievement is Space Tourism and clones for the elite. While she plots revenge upon the scientist who enslaved her, ...

Free Bonus Novel Included "For one split second, my heart stopped. Every care I had in the world ceased to exist. I knew it was only the calm before the storm, but I was willing to ride this one out. Either our love would sail off into the sunset, or sink into oblivion. I didn't care. I had never felt this way before about anyone. Giving in to my unbridled desire was the only option at this point..." Far beneath the wild waves of the Atlantic ocean lies the sacred city of Atlantis. Alexander Tuor, mermaid hunter and mourning brother, is going to destroy it. In steps Rameses, the reluctant ...

"If you enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time or Tuck Everlasting, get ready for the treat Sandcastle for Pegasus is." –Jim Laughter, author of The Apostle Murders Sandcastle for Pegasus is the story of Martin Taylor, a devoted husband and father of a mentally challenged son, Luke. Martin's world is torn apart when, Candy, who suffers from a similar condition, vanishes and no one except for Martin seems to remember her. Clues indicate someone is traveling through time to undo the birth of anyone who doesn't measure up. Martin's son, Luke, is a target and attempts on his life have already been made. ...

Mark is a reclusive dominant who confines his sexual interests strictly to the online world. On his routine afternoon ferry ride, he meets a woman who rouses the master in him, and the line snaps between the virtual and real worlds. She begs for him to take her over, and bring them both fulfillment and healing. He wants to refuse her but he finds himself agreeing to spend one day with her. It is a mistake, because the anger he holds inside is fully capable of destroying a soul as rare and beautiful as Nicole's. But no master, not even one as strong and disciplined as Mark, can resist the offer of a submissive who wants only one thing - to be his forever.

With new revelations, the amazing relationship Harper and Zara have formed threatens to end for good. Zara feels betrayed and insecure about Harper's actions and decides to take some time off. Her time off from all the drama back home turns thrilling when she encounters another werewolf, an intriguing rogue who calls himself Ethan. He is mysterious and seems to harbor a lot of secrets. Between Zara's growing bond with Ethan and the threat of rogues upon the pack, Harper finally starts to accept the role which he has been brought up for, that of the white alpha.

In the year 2038, there’s only one destination that can play host to the world’s wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a private South Pacific island, guests here live out their wildest fantasies in custom-made virtual reality simulations while also enjoying the usual amenities of an exclusive five-star getaway. All is relatively breezy until famed billionaire and avid guest, Mr. Wagner, goes missing within a virtual simulation. His only hope? A daring rescue led by Derek Ambrose and his ragtag search party.

Twenty-plus intimate sci-fi stories from the heights and depths of the fractal universe. The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The lighter side; the humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when ...

What if you weren’t who you thought you were? What if your DNA carried a lost race just waiting to rally its people? The invisible ones are here, waiting in the shadows for opportunity to open the mind. A tiny sphere, a knock in the forehead, and the forgotten people awaken to their species. Sonia appears to be a typical grandmother at seventy-five. She thinks her worst fears have been realized when she is forced to move into a city senior complex. She has always felt she was different. When a tiny sphere appears out of empty space, informs her she belongs to a lost race, she is not ...

Reality looks different through the eye of a camera. As the youngest daughter of a wealthy rancher, Azalea has it all—good looks, a steady boyfriend, and a scholarship to a prestigious university. It's the perfect gilded cage. Azalea longs to break free and stand on her own, to find the passion that's missing from her life. But nothing in reality resembles her dreams... until she meets Leo. Leonardo Walton is a self-made billionaire, a genius investor with an unfortunate knack for upsetting people. Determined to boost Leo's public image, his PR manager signs him up for the reality show ...

Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language. She awakens in a windowless room full of lab equipment and spends a minute getting used to the pumping heart, tingly skin, and air filling the lungs of her new healthy body. Her name is Mary, and she has returned from the Ten Sigma Program, a virtual universe designed to produce the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen through the harshest training methods ever devised. Now stuffed with every type of lethal knowledge and a victor in countless life-and-death struggles, she has one goal: to reunite with her ...

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.

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...

Seoul’s brightest stars are about to become its darkest pawns. In a futuristic Korea gripped by a plummeting birth rate, the government unveils the National Family Expansion Law—a decree that turns families into tools of the state. Every household head must impregnate all women over sixteen under their roof, no exceptions, no mercy. For S.E.V.E.N., a rising K-pop group on the cusp of stardom, this isn’t just policy—it’s their new reality. Bora, Nari, Jin, and Cha are plucked from the stage and thrust into a twisted reality show, their lives broadcast to a nation desperate for ...

What if you weren’t who you thought you were? What if your DNA carried a lost race just waiting to rally its people? The invisible ones are here, waiting in the shadows for opportunity to open the mind. A tiny sphere, a knock in the forehead, and the forgotten people awaken to their species. For the better part of her working career Ziva had been behind a monitor yet now that she is about to retire, her employer wants her to go out into the field. It isn't enough to simply rock her comfort zone, but they have paired her with an obnoxious, manipulative operative with an agenda of her own. ...

To break free, you'll need to break the game In the virtual fantasy realm of Honorus, Ronin Ironclad is a Paladin forced to fight for his real-world coalition. A coalition that has turned the government's way to resolve political disputes in-game into a weapon to control the populace. Especially the Drafted players. Now, the wonder and magical beauty of Honorus is consumed with pointless warring, the game's true lore forgotten. That is until Ronin joins a top-level clan who fights to return Honorus to its epic fantasy game origins. A beginning designed to unify the world. But, deserting his...

They were chased through the portal into the Earth world, by soldiers bent on destroying them; only to find that planet as unfriendly as the humans behind them. They were mere children, different; in the eyes of either world, especially those who hunted them, unfit to remain in existence. Instead of finding succor in this new world, they found that the Overseers of their past world had entrenched themselves in Earth society, were changing it, not for the better, but using it to propagate their own race, and eradicate the many cultures of Earth. With enemies behind, who had followed them ...

A 1921 coma. A journey to the year 3906. A secret that will ignite a war across time. When teacher Paul Dienach falls into a year-long coma, his doctors see only a medical curiosity. But Paul awakens a changed man, haunted by memories that are not his own—memories of a life in the 39th century. He has witnessed humanity's utopian future, a world of peace and profound consciousness born from the ashes of a cataclysmic fire that is yet to come. Terrified of being dismissed as a madman, Paul documents everything in a secret journal, an explosive chronicle of humanity’s destiny. Before his ...

Would you survive a show like Naked and Afraid? What if the real dangers happened when the cameras were turned off? An awkward neophyte, without warning, is asked to go on a jungle TV reality show. He joins a group of survival experts made up of beautiful women and macho men. They have no food or clothing, and worst of all, they do everything possible to make him leave.. Yet, there are more terrifying threats than arrogant survivalists and a lack of food. At the end of the show, will anyone be left to extract? This clean fiction story is a mild satire of reality TV series, and is about ...