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Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate, swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love, and justice. But freedom and immortality are a poisoned chalice. Some of Max's new friends crave power; others become traitors and spies.

Rostislav Grokhotov, an ordinary clerk working for a privately-owned company, just wanted to earn some extra money in the game. He had no specific plans for his new character. Little did he know that his new nickname Rosgard would become the game's next greatest legend. Whose side does one take without becoming a pawn in anyone's game?

As Julius Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon, "alea iacta est"—"the die is cast." All the bridges have been burned. The contract with the clan of the Sleepless Ones has been signed, and Rosgard will begin the expedition under their banners. The Black Queen is in the lead—an enormous ship masked as an island sets forth to bring the fleets to a new continent concealed under a magical veil that can only be parted by a single player—namely, Rosgard.

It's time for the Great Navigator Rosgard to lead his seafaring armadas toward the far-off new continent. Waldyra's players are impatient to get there. But instead, Rosgard becomes a father. Although his mischievous daughter is only a digital creation of this virtual world, the challenges of being a father are the same. Besides, she isn't a child anymore but a restless teen. The girl is a potential goddess in the making, and her arrival into this world isn't exactly welcome by the gods of old whose thrones are getting a bit shaky.

Nothing is ever given freely. One has to pay the full price for everything one gets. Easy money for a seemingly minor quest in a game? Well, you're obviously being played for a mark. Suddenly stumbled upon a unique spell coveted by the entire world of Waldyra? That automatically makes you the quarry for the game's top clans, each of which will be hunting you - IRL as well as inside the game.

Rosgard has become the owner of a unique spell that can blaze a trail to the lost continent, thus leaving himself with no choice in the matter. His character will have to become a great deal stronger before the Great Expedition begins, or he'll have to forfeit the spell and pass it on to somebody else. However, the game's presented Rosgard and his team with a new challenge - now they have to accept the ultimatum of an aggressive underwater race known as the crabbers and set off on a difficult and dangerous quest which they dare not fail for fear of horrible repercussions.

Being a unique player has its advantages but comes fraught with quite a few problems. Having become the owner of a spell capable of removing the magic veil from an unexplored continent, Rosgard has to prepare himself for the role of the Navigator, the only one who can lead the expedition across the ocean. Should he fail to do so, the spell will be taken away by the game's administration.

Rostislav Grokhotov does not want to become anyone's pawn. Therefore, his unexpected acquisition makes him ponder his own goals. Having become the sole owner of a unique spell coveted by top-ranking clans, he no longer wants to go with the flow. That way would only lead to ruin and obscurity. He'd need to go all in-and to have a good plan. With several more contingency plans for good measure. What are the opportunities available to someone in the possession of a unique spell capable of dispelling the veil over the unexplored continent of Zar'Graad?

Rostislav Grokhotov, an ordinary clerk working for a privately-owned company, just wanted to earn some extra money in the game. He had no specific plans for his new character. Little did he know that his new nickname Rosgard would become the game's next greatest legend. Even the game's Creche zone may contain items of interest if you're observant enough. Rosgard's find didn't just change his own life drastically - it enveloped an entire game world in turmoil to boot! The adventuring player becomes a valued prize for Waldyra's leading clans. Our hero has to conceal his real name.

Not long ago, Daniel Mahan, known to everyone as Shaman Mahan, thought that he had taken his sixth and final step in the Barliona gameworld. Yet life has other ideas. The Corporation decides to resurrect the Lord of Shadow and his entire host. The Corporation's CEO personally pushes the reset button. Geranika and his Dragon of Shadow spring back to life as, meanwhile, the Corporation makes an offer the Shaman can't refuse.

Bronwic must battle on the Bane world, Holgaad, to rejoin humanity on Earth. His only chance is to ride the edge of death and level up in the hope one of his most powerful skills can evolve to save him. A gritty, unexpected series of events brings him enormous challenges and rewards, plus the chance to become the most powerful human alive—if he can remain unbreakable.

The Indowy "Bane Sidhe" conspiracy has grown strong, and the cunning and resourceful Darhel - tacit rulers of the Galactic Federation - have decided that the time has come to wipe that threat from the stars forever. What the Darhel don't know is that humans have joined the rebellion - led by thief and assassin extraordinaire, Cally O'Neal. Now Cally is set to destroy a web of alien deceit millennia in the making.

Rosgard muss dringend leveln und sich neue Fähigkeiten aneignen, um den einzigartigen Zauber, in dessen Besitz er gelangt ist, wirken zu können. Doch wieder einmal durchkreuzt Waldyra seine Pläne und lockt ihn in ein neues Abenteuer. Wie könnte er sich auch die Chance entgehen lassen, einen geheimnisvollen und unerforschten Ort, das Land auf der anderen Seite, zu besuchen? Selbst mit dem mächtigsten Clan Waldyras – den Rastlosen – an seiner Seite verspricht diese Reise eine beschwerliche zu werden. Dennoch hat Rosgard kaum eine andere Wahl.

Es ist noch gar nicht so lange her, dass Daniel Mahan, allen bekannt als Schamane Mahan, fest davon überzeugt war, in der Spielewelt von Barliona den sechsten und letzten Schritt hinter sich gebracht zu haben. Doch jetzt funkt ihm das Leben dazwischen. Das Unternehmen entschließt sich dazu, den Gebieter des Schattens mitsamt seiner Anhängerschar von den Toten auferstehen zu lassen. Der CEO des Unternehmens persönlich ist es, der das Spiel per Knopfdruck zurücksetzt.

For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human - but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids. Rick has faced facts: This place is going to be home, permanently. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive.

While I’ve been cooling my heels in Africa, things have been happening at a furious pace back home. Zombies have founded a city right next to mine, and the nearest human settlements are now united and busy sharpening their knives. Meanwhile, traitors weave their webs of intrigue within the Architects Clan itself, and a numberless horde of zombies is moving relentlessly toward us from China. And these are just some of the problems I’m going to have to solve as soon as I get home.

In "Follia per sette clan" Dick si tramuta, in quanto scrittore di fantascienza, in psicologo/ psichiatra che utilizza la sua creatura letteraria come atto terapeutico sia per i suoi personaggi che per i lettori, organizzando un viaggio dentro le psicosi della mente, o meglio – grazie alla duttilità della fantascienza – su Alfa III L2, una luna ospitante i ‘lunatici’, vale a dire, non coloro colpiti da malattia provocata (come una volta si credeva) dal mutamento dei cicli lunari, bensì coloro che, diagnosticati ‘folli’ sulla terra, sono stati allontanati (allunati?) su un satellite remoto e isolato.

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Rosgard ist in den Besitz des einzigartigen Zaubers gelangt, der den Weg zum verlorenen Kontinent bahnt. Ihm bleibt also keine andere Wahl. Sein Charakter muss sehr viel stärker werden, bevor die Große Expedition beginnt. Oder er muss den Zauber aufgeben und ihn an jemand anderen weitergeben. Doch die Chance darauf, eine Legende Waldyras zu werden, einfach verspielen? Niemals. Das Spiel stellt Rosgard und sein Team jedoch vor eine neue Herausforderung: Sie müssen das Ultimatum der Krabber, einer aggressiven Unterwasserrasse, annehmen und sich auf eine schwierige und gefährliche Mission begeben.

Der legendäre LitRPG-Klassiker jetzt auch auf Deutsch! Wenn einem jemand das Angebot macht, schnell und einfach ein paar Hunderter zu verdienen, dann gibt es doch fast immer irgendwo einen Haken. Eine scheinbar kinderleichte Quest in der virtuellen Welt von Waldyra ist eine hervorragende Möglichkeit, etwas Geld zu verdienen, oder? Nur leider laufen die Dinge nie ganz so, wie man es gern hätte. Rostislaw Grokhotov ist nicht gerade scharf drauf, zum Spielball zu werden. Nach seinem unerwarteten Fund macht er sich daher Gedanken über seine eigenen Ziele.