Online Fiction

Twenty-nine-year-old Anna is smart, vivacious, and in the midst of a complete existential meltdown. Sure, from the outside everything in her life seems to be going just fine: She has a decent job, a devoted BFF, and a lovely boyfriend named Pete with whom she is exactly 70% compatible, according to Kismet, the matchmaking app that everyone in Anna's world uses to find love. Still...isn't there supposed to be more to life than this? Should she settle for a secure and predictable existence with Pete, or risk everything for a life of passion and adventure?

Bluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his 30s with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassie - a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity - finds work at a “new media” company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs.

Ruby Brookes and her best friend Deva have won free places at the Ash Tree Foundation Performing Arts Camp over the summer, but only if their school grades seriously improve. So when Deva suddenly starts getting high marks in all their subjects, leaving Ruby behind, she is confused and jealous. Until she finds out Deva's success is down to EchoStar, a new app that's helping her get ahead. Ruby is desperate to start using it too, but there is much more to BrightStar than she has imagined. Because EchoStar is always watching and listening.

Welcome to Marco's rollercoaster of luck. Find the right girl, have a job you only mostly hate, and eventually move out of Washington State. Except...Marco gets dumped, fired, and incorrectly imprisoned. His freedom brings a silver lining in the form of a big check that hits his bank account. Deciding to enter a new line of work, Marco buys a ticket to Myriad Online...only to realize things are not going as planned, not at all.

Staying alive in Travail is Coral's one shot at a livelihood, but the game's new content threatens to destroy the in-game economy worldwide. When a newly resurrected god starts mind-hacking players and affecting their real world behavior, Coral can't just stand by, even when getting involved may cause more harm than good.

Lucas "Luke" Patterson, an ordinary geeky college student, gets a summer job at Vortex Industries. His summer job is to test a new virtual reality game using the Vortex Capsule, a machine capable of fully immersing you into virtual reality. His first session is life-changing, and he quickly becomes engrossed in a new fantasy world. Things are going great until a rogue hacking group attacks the servers that host the game, trapping all the players inside.

Samantha has faced incredible odds and climbed past the first two Realms of Valhalla Online in her quest to reach the final Realm - where she can learn the truth about how she came to be in Valhalla in the first place. But now she is alone. Cut off from all support, Sam must struggle to win through this strange new world on her own. With the black archer still on her tail, Sam has to move quickly to win through Vanaheim before he can find a way to put an arrow into her and finish her quest for good.

Actions have consequences. Grant’s prior adventures tie together and he finds himself back in Continue Online, as Hermes - in jail. He's forced to experience life as a digital convict and earn redemption points to gain his freedom. Each in-game death pushes his goal of helping his friends out of reach. The AIs Grant’s grown to love, trust - and sometimes fear - are facing extinction, and he holds the key to their survival.

Get the first two books together in this special Publisher's Pack edition! More than just a game, Valhalla Online was designed as a permanent repository for the uploaded minds of mortals afraid of death. An artificial afterlife. Samantha's world is turned upside-down when she arrives in Valhalla - because as far as she knows, she isn't like the other people uploaded there. She isn't dead. At least...she hopes she isn't. Now Sam must solve the mystery of her own abduction - or murder! - while trapped inside a virtual world, cut off from communication with the outside.

This audiobook is recorded in Russian. Genre is RPG-lit. In the future people will not die completely. They will move their consciousness into a virtual reality called the "Galaxy online".

Welcome to the future.... These are some of the first words that welcomed Buck and millions of others to Echo Online, a full-immersion urban fantasy MMO centered around creating guilds and living a second, more exciting life in a vibrant digital world filled to the brim with magic and thrilling chaos. Meanwhile, in the real world, Buck's romantic life is kicked into high gear following his first proper meeting with his neighbor, kicking off a series of events in the game that leads down a rabbit hole of gunfights, magic, and charismatic Russian Orcs.

In the hedonistic world of Vauxhall Gardens, a place where London's aristocracy pursues daring entertainment and sensual pleasures, desire overrules status, prejudice, and societal censure. When Lola York meets Theodore Coventry, Earl of Essex, their chemistry is undeniable, but she knows better than to yearn for forbidden love. That is, until their involvement becomes unavoidable and Lola realizes the most dangerous risk of all is the one that threatens her heart.

Damien hatte gedacht, dass seine bevorstehenden Prüfungen schon schlimm genug wären. Aber dann bricht seine Mutter zusammen, die unter einer schweren Herzschwäche leidet. In einem verzweifelten Versuch, das Geld für ihre Operation zu beschaffen, nimmt er an einem Streamer-Wettbewerb des neuesten Fantasy-VR-MMORPGs Saga Online teil. Doch durch einen Verrat gleich zu Beginn und eine gefährliche Begegnung mit einem Vampir droht Damien zu scheitern, noch bevor er überhaupt begonnen hat.

What the streets don’t realize is that Mace can take a punch and doesn’t mind punching back. In fact, he prefers it that way! Along with Havervill, his irascible (but charming) virtual assistant; Tinsie, his sassy deputy; and Buddy his stoic golem, Mace will investigate several murders, the theft of a relic of mass destruction, and the kidnapping of the most famous woman in the game.

Dex, Frida, Hiko, and Tasha successfully opened the Godmadrigan Army and the Celestial aliens up to forming an alliance against the Daemonorgs. Now they’re assigned the crucial mission of eliminating key parts of the daemons’ on-ground strongholds, since weakening the beasts’ parasitic grip on the planet is needed to enable their long-awaited defeat.

The village of Canalville is vintage, small-town America, with boutique shops, streets made for strolling, and best-known for its annual WinterWonderFest, a dazzling celebration of the holiday season. Yet there’s a hint of desperation in this year’s vibe. With the possibility of bankruptcy on the mind of every villager, the success of this year’s festivities is crucial. For the first time, the possibility of a live TV broadcast looms large.

Cassidy Delgado needs the newest MMO launch from Lush Games to be fantastic. It isn’t just the future of the company and a lot of money on the line, it’s her career as a product manager. The hype is enormous. Someone has hacked the project code already, but the R&D heads have assured Cassidy they’ve fixed the error.

After a card game turns violent, Franko escapes into the Australian wilderness, where he experiences the diverse hardship of the Australian bush but is rescued from certain disaster by an Aborigine. Sergeant Patterson is a tough lawman who defends the one he considers most worthy—guilty or innocent. He is determined to bring Franko to trial.

»Lehrkraft in der Schule! Das könnte mir gefallen! Wissen Se, mit Kindern kann ich gut. Wenn man älter wird, hört man nicht mehr so gut, und die Nerven sind auch gestählt…« Renate Bergmann weiß um den Lehrkräftemangel und bietet sich in ihrem zugegebener Maßen recht hohem Alter als Quereinsteigerin an. Schließlich braucht es nicht nur überstudierte Experten, sondern Menschen mit Lebenserfahrung an den Schulen! Als ihre kleine Nichte Lisbeth eingeschult wird, gibt es kein Halten mehr: Die Online-Omi bürstet ihr bestes Kostüm auf und geht die Sache gewohnt resolut an.

Contains all three books of The Desert Sequence: Desert Runner, Desert Born, and Desert Storm. Follow NPC Maddie on her journey of self-discovery, which takes her through the deadly desert plains to the inner programming that makes her who she is.