Reality Game

Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? Online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Samuel Woolley shows in this urgent book, it...

What if reality behaves less like random matter and more like a responsive operating system? G.O.D. — The Game Operating Device presents a symbolic framework for understanding how Source, consciousness, language, belief, emotion, action, time, and embodiment interact to shape lived experience. Blending spirituality, systems language, metaphysics, symbolic pattern recognition, and practical self-observation, this book explores the hidden architecture behind repetition, synchronicity, manifestation, suffering, awakening, and transformation. This is not a book about escaping life. It is a ...

There are the laws you’ve been taught — and then there are the ones you were never meant to know. In this chilling and atmospheric account, Lucian Vale reveal the seven forbidden laws hidden beneath the everyday rules of the world: truths that bend walls, stretch time, give thought physical weight, and open doors that should never be opened. Part memoir, part survival guide, part occult field manual, this book takes you from the first subtle cracks in reality to the shadowy custodians who patrol its edges — the Gatekeepers. But knowledge has a cost. Once you’ve read these pages, you...

"Tom Reissmann brings us a novel of big ideas, pulse-pounding action, and deep emotion that will keep you guessing as Max and Olivia struggle to uncover the mysteries behind The Reality Games." –Hayden Trenholm, award-winning author of The Steele Chronicles. ***** “The Reality Games is a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very end.” –Steve Peters, Experience Designer and Founder of No Mimes Media. *****In 2061, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Professor Max Wheeler welcomes a synthetic into his home – a construct that looks and acts exactly like his late wife, and...

NEW 2024 UPDATED VERSION Brock has pure gaming skill. Garth has hacks and cheats never seen before. Sparks will fly when these two forces collide. In reality, Brock Blades is practically invisible. But in virtual reality, Brock is a master of Ninja Assassin, the most popular VR Roblox game at Beach City Elementary. So when a Ninja Assassin competition is announced with a 1-million Robux prize, Brock prepares for the game of his life. Garth Raynor is a spoiled rich kid who always gets what he wants. Garth's father is the owner and creator of the Roblox virtual reality system, so it's no ...

Are you one of those individuals who have taken gain by others for their benefit? Has somebody you loved came to your life quickly and then left without explanation after they took everything from you? If your answer to these questions is yes, then this is the right book for you! The majority of individuals have a difficult time identifying false statements and distinguishing fake from genuine emotions. That’s especially true, even with the individuals around them. Indeed, the small lie about how amazing your mother’s pie tastes won’t hurt. It might even be needed for smooth and ...

Level up. Build your crew. Save the Galaxy. Byron Jones was just another lonely gamer until saving a mysterious old man earned him a once-in-a-lifetime invite to VENUS ONLINE, the most immersive sci-fi VRMMORPG ever created. Inside the game, Byron becomes commander of a starship with a crew of beautiful alien women, each with their own skills, secrets, and charms. But paradise becomes a nightmare when he realizes he can’t log out and the galaxy is ruled by Lady Necralia, a cruel warlord who thrives on the suffering of trapped players. To survive, Byron must grind levels, upgrade his ship,...

Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius — she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So it’s only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a “do-it-yourself” TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN “Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus “By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The Economist...

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how...

Jax thought he was done with video games after barely escaping the chaos of Battle Royale. But when a new glitch pulls him into Spartan Arena, he’s thrust into a futuristic combat simulator where survival isn’t guaranteed, and teamwork is the only way out. Thrown into intense matches of Capture the Flag, Oddball, Team Slayer, and Firefight, Jax must quickly adapt to the fast-paced world of the arena. Armed with high-tech gear and joined by a team of elite warriors—including the sharp-shooting Ace, grenade-loving Kai, and his returning ally Skye—Jax must face relentless challenges ...

“Deviously clever and emotionally rich. I devoured it.” —Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network Which would you choose: kiss, marry, or kill? When three best friends and founders of a health and wellness app on the verge of hitting the big time play a spin on...

Ready Player One meets Tron! Kai thought he had the best job in the world. Playing VR games for a living. Not if the games are trying to kill you. The Net is the last great frontier, a wilderness of data filled with mysteries beyond imagination. Bugs, a harmless annoyance in earlier decades, have become a deadly menace in times when gamers connect their brains directly to VR. The Cyber Squad has been created to hunt them down. What used to be game QA in earlier times has become an elite, special force of the future, risking their lives to keep users safe. At first, joining the Cyber Squad...

An American Dystopian Psychological Survival Thriller Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award Runner-Up (Wild Card), Paris Book Festival Previously published as Chloroform Wars — revised edition with two additional chapters. They don’t execute rebels anymore — they broadcast them. The cameras never blink. The audience never looks away. In a near-future America, teenagers are forced into televised survival competitions where obedience is rewarded and resistance is punished publicly. Winning doesn’t mean freedom. It means staying useful to the system. Losing doesn’t mean death ...

Deuce’s life took an unexpected shift when he found himself connected to a virtual fantasy world filled with ‘Authors’ as players. A genetic defect had some unexpected results on his transition, and now he's facing a world more vibrant and dangerous than anything he’d come across in his previous life. He did not understand how far in over his head he was until he entered the Kongdom and realized that gnoks watched his every move… If you have a problem with Parody, Satire, Making Fun of LitRPG Authors, Mutants, Cannibals, Harems, Depravity, Dirty Jokes, Clean Jokes, Puns, Making ...

In the quiet corridors of a forgotten childhood, Lena’s past begins to resurface. After a series of disturbing dreams, Lena is haunted by the name "Lia"—a name she can’t recall but feels deeply tied to. As she digs deeper into her lost memories, she uncovers a fractured identity buried beneath years of trauma. Driven by an obsession to piece together her past, Lena is drawn to a decaying house that holds more than just forgotten memories—it holds the truth. But as the line between Lena and Lia blurs, hallucinations and forgotten horrors rise to the surface, threatening to consume ...

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)...

She logged in for escape. She stayed because the game wouldn’t let her leave. Virelle Knox didn’t expect much from DevineFlame, the bleeding-edge AR fantasy game everyone whispered about behind closed doors. It was just another survival hack—another gig between barista shifts and the kind of sex work no one ever asks twice about. But when the system scans her body, maps her memories, and offers a class called Courtesan, Virelle makes a decision that seems simple. Say yes. Now, she’s not just a player. She must become the object of every scripted desire and unspoken ache in the ...

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.

One man. Seven devoted women. An empire of floating islands waiting to be claimed. When ordinary gamer Alex straps on the revolutionary VeeAre Deck headset, he expects a simple escape. What he gets is total rebirth as Draven Skyforge — the legendary Dragon Lord of Aetheria. Thrust into a breathtaking world of floating sky empires, ancient dragons, and endless aerial conquest, Draven bonds with the mighty primordial Flame Drake Kaelith and unlocks a unique class that lets him dominate the heavens themselves. Levels rise with every victory. Realms fall beneath his wings. Storm gods tremble....