12/30/2023 0 Comments Last horizon alive litrpgLength is very good (502 pages) and price is good (~$4 CAD). Plot seems reminiscent of Ready Player One. This is the second book released by the author (the first being a sci fi anthology) and is self-published. To avenge a fallen friend, he must risk it all.Īnd make a decision that will change the face of the world. Inside Rune Universe, Cole will stumble upon real, mortal danger. With great interstellar alliances, unending adventure, spaceshipsĪnd it hides a secret the CIA would love to crack. Rune Universe is a game with a billion worlds. The year is 2041.Ĭole Dorsett is a Script Kiddie, a thief of information with a chip against the system. Neon lights that hide rampant crime underneath. Connecting to the game servers.įaceless Corporations. Despite this being one of the rare 'real world follows RPG rules' type which I'd like to read more of I'll probably be giving this a pass. I'm not personally wild about anthologies and the high price point doesn't help. Lengths are decent (200-300 pages) but the price point is rather high (~$8 CAD). The series seems to be at least half made up of loosely connected stories collected in anthologies. This is one of the very rare 'the real world starts following RPG rules' type. So at least decent writing and good editing can be expected. The primary author of this series has been publishing for years now and this series is being released by an actual publishing house. They must move quickly, as time is running out to stop the Actuator and the villain who controls it and the earth’s destiny. Overnight, the Actuator becomes the worst menace the earth has ever seen, claiming lives in staggering numbers.Ĭan a few surviving Machine Monks band together to set things right again? It all depends on whether Red McLaren and the Monks can survive their journey through the various realms that separate them from the Actuator, where ever-present orcs, aliens, pirates, and vampires seek to destroy them. The entire world is plunged into chaos, and familiar landscapes become a deadly patchwork of genre horrors. Meanwhile, an unknown saboteur dismantles the dampeners. Experiments progress to where they feed more than twenty different genre ideas simultaneously into the Actuator’s database. But those in charge of the project eagerly anticipate exploring the full potential of this amazing device. These ideas are then superimposed upon sparsely inhabited areas for testing.įor a while, the enigmatic Actuator cooperates with the experiments, using dampeners to limit the affected area. The scientists in charge of this machine employ operatives called Machine Monks, who attune their minds to manifest single ideas from the realms of fantasy and science fiction. In theory, these often terrifying realities are reversible. Known as “The Actuator”, this machine is capable of transforming entire communities into alternate realities. On a secret military base tucked in a remote desert mountain, a dangerous machine lies hidden from the American public. The Actuator series by James Wymore and various other authors The blatant rip-off of SAO does not fill me with high hopes for this series. Only released a couple of days ago so no reviews yet. The summary reads like a straight rip-off of Sword Art Online. Good length (400 pages) but very high price ($8 CAD), especially for a first time self-published author. The Player Killer’s Mark is the first book of the Stalwart Souls Online fantasy LitRPG series.įirst time author. Roy will face dark dungeons, go on adventures, compete in player versus player battles, navigate the difficulties of guild politics, and learn a more realistic definition of good and evil. In the midst of this is someone who must cope and survive in this updated RPG world while avoiding becoming the Player Killer's next target. They soon discover that the log out function has been disabled, and that that isn't the only thing that has changed in the game. All players online at that time revert back to Trainee level, their hard work erased. Stalwart Souls Online is rebooted, a new patch applied. What they didn't count on was the system being hijacked. When a mysterious Player Killer with the ability to cause his victims to die in real life appears in the fully immersive massive multi-player online roleplaying game (MMORPG) Stalwart Souls Online, administrators shut down the game servers to find the criminal. Stalwart Souls Online series by Kaye Fairburn Back again with some more updates and additions to the list.
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