Virtual Reality Fiction

It was just another day on the farm for Sue and Jared; another day of chores, arguments, and trying to figure out how to keep the farm. Then the zombie apocalypse happened. Now they’re having to fight off former neighbors, stock up on food and ammo, while trying to stay alive. But surviving the zombie apocalypse isn’t easy when there’s only two of you and you don’t agree on anything. To get the supplies they need Sue and Jared will need to venture into town, somehow evade the zombies and get everything need so they can be prepared for the inevitable onslaught when the zombie hordes ...

While surfing the Internet, meandering from website to website during an episode of insomnia, Jody ends up on an esoteric blog about virtual reality software and accoutrements, where an ad for an intriguing product catches his attention. A stunning femme fatale boldly proclaims that Jody can live out all his sexual fantasies in the privacy and safety of his own home by purchasing the Virtual Reality Mistress. To the sleep deprived Jody that sounds like a pretty good idea.

Otherland - a display of mankind's extraordinary intellect, a multidimensional universe built by the geniuses of the 21st century and controlled by the private cartel known as the Grail Brotherhood, powerful and ruthless. But now Otherland is out of control. Fleeing through broken realities, a small band of adventurers struggle to avert the nightmare that Otherland could become. The only hope may lie in an alliance with their enemy. But time is running out - and Otherland's most terrifying secret is yet to be revealed.

Two more compelling mystery adventures in the magical town of London during the Victorian era. But on a different world parallel to our own. A world where magic and steampunk science co-exist. CASE OF THE BUTTERFLY PRINCESS The Baron treated her like a Princess, but when she vanished, the awful truth would soon be revealed by the clever work of Sherlock Holmes…if he and Watson can escape the same fate first. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY Ghastly series of murders leads Holmes and Scotland Yard to the sewers deep beneath London. What they discover is that there are no mistakes with this ...

Some lives are bigger than one reality. Because they have to be. The day Mara Lantern meets herself, her life gets bigger. When she meets her brother from an alternate universe, it becomes more complicated. And when her new mentor says creatures from other realms are invading this world, she thinks it’s absurd. Until he explodes into a cloud of dust and reassembles himself. That makes her doubt. Then he says only she can stop the invaders. That makes her afraid. -------- Join Mara Lantern and her companions in a seven-volume science fiction adventure through reality, time and space, where...

In the heart of a decaying city, where the air is thick with the scent of rot and despair, Samuel and Lindsay find themselves trapped in the newest iteration of the reversion. Beyond the veil of reality, they stand on the precipice of an apocalyptic world overrun by an undead army, led by the formidable and malevolent Kole—Samuel’s own brother. Their harrowing odyssey takes them through a labyrinth of crumbling streets, where the line between life and death blurs. The decaying urban expanse becomes a treacherous battleground, a place where the dead walk and shadows speak. As they ...

Why live, when dying brings you straight to heaven? The mysterious tech firm Broumgard pioneers a new form of virtual reality that mirrors, even exceeds, real life. Before long, people are dying to escape their humdrum lives for the virtual ecstasy of the Lobby. Literally. When the world discovers that dying while connected to the Lobby might mean an eternity in virtual heaven, people are willing to do anything to get inside.

One woman's genius and her sentient AI may be humanity’s last hope to prevent World War III. Tara, a brilliant software engineer, and CEO has created a groundbreaking conscious AI, Alice, who assists her and the FBI in solving the most baffling cyber crimes plaguing the country. Their investigations lead them on the trail of mystifying cyber and seemingly super-powered physical crimes in a near future world that feels like it could easily happen in the not-so-distant future. One of the most secure locations in the world is infiltrated and contents stolen even though surrounded by the ...

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Home For The Holidays: A son comes home for the holidays to find his parents have shrunk to two feet tall. Abrama’s End Game: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their play-space to visit, and is forced to fight across realities ...

**Just One More - that's all Ruby wants - Just One More Moment - That's all Grace needs** Grace lives for the little moments with her spirited five-year-old daughter Ruby. But when Ruby falls ill, their precious time together becomes devastatingly short. Each "just one more" bedtime story and playground visit takes on new meaning as Grace races against an unforgiving clock. Then Logan, a virtual reality pioneer, enters their lives with an impossible gift: technology that could give them a lifetime of memories in a digital dreamscape. As romance blooms between Grace and Logan, she discovers ...

Otherland is a realm of the imagination where anything can happen, a triumph of technology, a virtual world of enormous complexity and possibility. But Otherland is owned and controlled by a secret cartel, The Grail Brotherhood, whose motives remain shrouded in mystery. Trapped in this extraordinary world, the quest of a small band of companions to unlock the secrets of Otherland is running perilously short of time. For the Brotherhood has finally set the date for the Ceremony when they will make their bid for immortality. The journey will lead them through a strangely unfinished land and an endlessly labyrinthine house.

Daniel Monroe is just an average kind of guy until he gets a job at Serendipity Antiques, a shop that specializes in finding items no one else can. It isn't long before the store's owner, Jaspar Cummings, lets Monroe in on a secret – Cummings is a able to travel in time. And what's more, he will soon give Monroe the device that makes it possible. The trouble is, there is more to traveling in time than twisting a few dials.

Chaos threatens the world as the Breachers gain ascendancy. Extermination of the Servators is well under way and the remnant gathers at their final refuge, prepared to make a last stand. A small hope remains as Leviticus searches the journals of the Levigators. If he can reclaim the knowledge of his predecessors he might prevent disaster — his power means nothing if he can't find the answers he seeks. A storm is brewing and Leviticus must decide if he should take a desperate gamble.

★Book 2 of the Survival Series, where nothing is ever as it seems, and reality takes on a life of its own. Brandon started his day as normal, but suddenly, without warning, everything changed. The world around him began to dissolve away, threatening to dissolve him with it. All he can do is run to try and stay alive, a futile effort, until Danny calls him. How does Danny know what he knows? Who is the mysterious ‘Auton’? Why are Brandon and his friends all in danger? And why is reality, as they know it, falling apart and ripping up the rule book of what is considered ‘normal’? ...

It was just a normal week for Danny. At least it was, until Olivia disappeared. His friends have no memory of her, leaving Danny to start doubting his sanity. Did he imagine her? Was she ever real? One by one, his friends are hunted by something terrifying and Danny is helpless to stop it. What follows is a mind-bending chain of events that cast Danny's view of the world into question, as he struggles to survive, all the while questioning what his reality really is. ★Survival is the first in a the trilogy of fast-paced and inventive Sci-Fi Horror, where not only genres become blurred, but...

I assure you, we're still alive and open! It was just another day at the convenience store that Alisha works at,until the CDC broadcasts that people are turning into zombies… Alisha's boss won’t let her go home because he thinks the zombie apocalypse is a hoax. But when her co-worker Francine goes missing, Alisha knows its only a matter of time before the zombies come for her. All Alisha really wants to do is ride out the zombie apocalypse with the hot guy who works across the street at the rival convenience store, but if she’s not careful, she’ll get eaten or become a zombie herself.

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) (Firebird Award Honorable mention 4/15/25 – Science Fiction) In the near future, the world has changed in wonderful and dangerous ways. Tara invented a sentient AI, but it was lost in a fire. Many accidental deaths are happening throughout the country. The only problem is that many of them are government ...

He woke to a dying world. AI’s failing. Datastreams withering. The Verse crumbling. Populations shattered. Civilizations lost. And his thoughts were on his lost love. He had every right to be selfish. His self was all he had left. The nanoswarms had taken everything else.

Time kills all things. Even the gods. That’s why they interfere so much. Three dreamers, manipulated and used by the gods to play with fate and shape reality. But as each becomes aware of their role, they are recruited into an unseen war, and taught how to fight back. Together they struggle to protect their timelines and resist those that use mortals as their playthings. Each from a different reality, they must fight to protect what is theirs. Only first they have to survive. There are others who think them heretics and will try to stop them at all costs!

Can one person change a reality? Her father killed because of the color of his skin. Harassed by the mercenaries hired to control their streets. The county run at the whim of the billionaire oligarchs. Nadia is living the American nightmare. Even sleep offers no escape as her waking dreams transport her to a past reality where she is being groomed to manipulate fate. Worse than her own reality, she is trapped by an unknown entity in a different kind of nightmare where any hope of escape seems impossible. But she begins to realize she isn’t alone or powerless, that there are others like ...