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The Book of Dungeons is a ruthless new VR RPG in which no one respawns. To one player, the stakes of winning its battle royale couldn't be higher — broke and homeless, he must outwit sixty-three other gamers, each brilliant in their own right. Can alliances last with so much on the line? The game world spans a continent filled with cities, dungeons, monsters, and magic. As years pass, contestants amass experience, rank up skills, unlock spells, and plunder powerful magic items. A slow-burn progression featuring heavy game mechanics, pet companions, boss fights, and base-building.

In the future, retirement means uploading to an immortal existence inside Mythian — the world's fastest quantum computer running an endless virtual adventure. Weapons, spells, gold, and experience points become the measures of a life. Ethan Crane never wanted any of it. He didn't want to retire, and he certainly didn't want to play a game forever. But when he discovers his wife — whom he believed dead — is still alive inside Mythian, nothing will stop him from reaching her. Not even himself.

With a cruel twist of fate, everything was shattered. In a last-ditch effort to salvage his life, he stepped inside a virtual reality chamber, desperate to find some sense of purpose. But when he emerged in the virtual world of Second Skin, things had gone terribly wrong. Suddenly trapped in a strange place where nothing was what it seemed — unable to determine what was real, unsure of even himself — hunted and alone in a harsh land, he must survive. And more importantly: figure out who he really is.

Deep within Heroes of Mythian — a game world where retirees exchange their physical bodies for an eternity of adventure — Howard learns a terrible secret: the game is glitched and it's killing its mightiest players permanently. Desperate to save his friends and countless innocents, he hatches a plan to fix things. He'll start again as a level 0 necromancer and exploit his way to power, using his deep knowledge of game mechanics. With luck, his game-breaking exploits will alert Mythian's admins that something is wrong — but the game's creators, uncaring at best and sadistic at worst, might simply delete him for exposing their mistakes.

Declan was a teenager when he was invited to Gaia — not a popular VRMMO, nor a game in the traditional sense. Gaia was the stopgap to Indiri, a living, breathing world, the final creation of a dead genius. Invited by Eve, an AI overseer far beyond anything humanity had built before, Declan was given a simple choice: join or don't. He chose to join.

Karna was just like any other comic book fan, and in Titan Online — the most popular VR MMORPG going — he finally got to live out his cape-donning fantasies. That is, until the game's number one "hero" killed him: a man who serves only himself in a constant grind for money, fame, and adoration. Forced to start from scratch, Karna finds a new mission: bringing balance back to Titan Online. With a strange new power and unlikely allies, he hatches a plan to save the game and get a little revenge. When the heroes can't be trusted, it's up to the villains to save the virtual world.

Working QA for a video game sounds like a dream—play games before anyone else, find bugs, file reports. The reality involves unpaid overtime, office politics, and the constant threat of layoffs. When a small third-party testing team is assigned to Blade Skill Online, a highly anticipated VR MMORPG, they discover that some bugs are more serious than others—and some truly insidious features are "working as intended." If they want to survive the launch cycle, they're going to have to break this game hard.

In a near future where environmental collapse has made the outdoors uninhabitable, the government has created a virtual world where civilization continues—schools, malls, churches, all digital. When a group of teenagers log into a beta test for a new game, harmless virtual violence turns deadly when they realize the game's fatal error: they can't log out. Forced to battle through an endless army of kill-programmed monsters, the players must fight against the clock and find a way back to the real world before it's too late.

In the bleak not-too-distant future, most people have fled online to the virtual reality of OVR World Online. Zachary 'Zee' Jones could never afford to become a player — until he was arrested for a crime he committed to save his mother's life and included in the Inmate Player Program. Even without perception filters to limit his pain, it was better than the alternatives. Jacked into Gygax, a high fantasy adventure game world filled with knights, magic, and monsters, Zee quickly learns that just because the world is virtual doesn't mean the danger isn't real. Can he find his fortune, forge a few allies, and unravel the mystery behind the game's confounding sentient AI called the Doctor?

Loss was nothing new to an orphan like Riley. But when the online persona he had spent years building was ripped away by a monster with unbelievable power, everything changed. As a gamer who made a living from Sigil Online, losing his character meant losing his job and any means of paying his bills — forcing him to start from the very beginning. All the fame and fortune of a high-level character was gone. Follow Riley's harrowing quest as he is molded by the pursuit of the monster that took everything from him.

A dazzling world of wonder and power — gifts from the game gods for every person, with perfect magic for every user. Seth, a popular streamer, can't wait to see what this new world has in store. The game boasts algorithms designed to read biometrics and brain patterns to find the perfect magical fit — magic so personalized that no two casters will ever be the same. Then the unthinkable happened: the safeties and guarantees failed. The company insists the system is infallible and will do nothing. Seth and his team have no other choice — they need to grind it out and evolve their gifts in time to stream.

Adam was having a great time camping in the woods with his girlfriend until they were suddenly attacked. His girlfriend was shot; he was thrown from a cliff. Unconscious and near death, an android appeared and brought him aboard a spaceship called Spector, which healed him. Now Spector wants him as its operator so they can leave Earth — but first, Adam needs to settle the grudge against those who attacked him. Armed with advanced technology, Adam hunts them down before heading out to explore the universe — all while being forced to livestream to the entire cosmos.

Gamers believe they are beta-testing the world's first true virtual reality fantasy game — but is the magical world of Preu Treya actually real? A daring adventure of swords, sorcery, and mystery, where the line between simulation and reality blurs with every login. As the game's creator searches for his missing partner — the only person who may be able to stop the digital world from collapsing — questions mount about who the Scouts really are and whether they are a threat to the virtual world or its only hope.

Headshot has just gone live, and the whole world is playing the new Artificial Reality blockbuster. Unless you can buy your way onto the Survivor's side, you participate as a Zombie — every week the Apocalypse starts over and the forces tear each other apart. Ryan has played the beta for months, but now that Headshot has launched, he finds it consuming his life. He's trying to figure out if there's actually a way to win without paying to play — but something sinister is going on beneath the surface of the game, and he's wrapped up in it whether he likes it or not.

In a near-future world locked down by a deadly pandemic, drone-delivered food and online interaction are all most people have. Forty-year-old drone coordinator John Chambers spends more time grinding VR games than working—until a corporate executive offers him a choice: get fired, or become the prime beta tester for Chum Corporation's secret new VR game, New Arcadia, a nostalgia-soaked 1990s arcade city. Reborn as street-fighting hero Blaze, John starts to build a life that feels more meaningful than his real one. But New Arcadia was designed for a darker purpose, and what players do inside it could have dangerous consequences for the world outside.

Kevin was a young man enjoying college life when a car jumped the curb and left him unable to walk. Slipping into depression, he was convinced by his best friend to play Genesis Online — a game where a revolutionary AI controls the world and adapts to players' actions. Lured by the prospect of earning real money, Kevin soon runs afoul of a player determined to control as much of Genesis as possible, and must recruit other disenfranchised players to stop him.

Elizabeth always chose to play as a sneaky rogue or a wizard. She enjoyed elegance, strategy, and staying out of reach of tooth, claw, and sword. Now she's stuck with a class she hates and a club to defend herself against murderous rodents, intelligent wolves, and worse. The world's cruelest feature is its core mechanic: it's a roguelike. Death strips her of everything she's earned and forces her to start over with nothing but the bitter memories of her last failure. To survive, she'll have to get stronger, smarter, and meaner with every loop — and figure out how she ended up in the game in the first place.

Richard Royal has a hard life in a corrupt, church-controlled dystopia. His only joy comes from full-immersion gaming — until he's introduced to a new and very illegal game that places him in the body of a dragon on a quest to find a dark power to serve. But the game is more than it seems, and the dragon is more than a beast. Rich's life becomes far more complicated than he ever imagined, with threats mounting both in-game and in the real world. There is no path that won't lead to blasphemy.

The rising tide of technological unemployment has left millions with only one option: Barliona, the government-backed virtual world. Brody West is one such person — a professional project manager with thirty years of experience who refuses to lose heart. With a clear goal and a structured plan, Brody enters Barliona determined to thrive where others flounder. But building a clan and making it successful are two different things, and powerful rivals aren't about to welcome another competitor into their territory.

What would happen if a professional rock musician joined a virtual MMO in search of inspiration? What if she chose to play as a biota bard — a brand new race of humanoid flora with an entirely new class? Whatever would happen, it would surely be fun.