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When Alex joins Gamemakers Online, she finds there are no newbie areas, no tutorials, and nothing but vicious critters hunting her down. This seems like an impossible task, but Alex is a veteran platinum achievement hunter who has solved previously unwinnable scenarios. She won't give up now. As she delves deeper into the game, she discovers it hides sinister secrets. If she can't survive the first year in Gamemakers Online, then she'll lose more than her own life.

TRAPPED IN THE GAME Vanitha is a parahuman hacker who can physically enter computer systems to control them from the inside. For her own amusement, she's created an online RPG called The Path. When a new in-game mystery presents itself, she goes to investigate it. The strange Malevolence traps...

Before being conscripted to fight in the Total War, Private Hector Park had a shattered family, a collection of old video games, and a promising career as a motorcycle stuntman. Now, he is dying from a virus threatening humankind with extinction. He has three days to live. When Hector’s brother contacts him after years of hostile silence, Hector goes to try and make peace. But his brother offers him something even better: the chance to cheat death by joining him in Archemi, a full-immersion fantasy VR-RPG video game.

Reva Myles is a forensic memory analyst for the Bureau, trained to decode neural strands and expose deception. But when a crime scene memory shows her own face as the killer, Reva is thrust into a conspiracy that rewrites everything she thought she knew. Haunted by fragments of erased memories and hunted by a system she once served, Reva discovers a shadow organization that may hold the key to why she chose to forget. With the help of a rogue hacker and a buried backup of her former self, she must race to dismantle a weaponized memory system that threatens to erase identity on a global scale.

Times are tough in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Angel, an ex-prostitute-turned-assassin, has just killed her ex-boyfriend without making a dime on it. Camaro, a courier, is wanted by the Feds for smuggling coffee and evading pursuit. And Haiwee, once the greatest hacker on the planet, has ruined her body with the drugs used to enhance her reflexes and is destitute with no reputation left to cash in upon. So when a billionaire offers them a big paycheck to retrieve one of three collectible bottles and destroy the other two, the three young mercenaries don't ask questions.

Professor Mortimer Kull hat einen Kinofilm mitproduziert, der zum absoluten Hit wird. Kull ist so fasziniert vom abstoßenden Äußeren der Hauptfigur, dass er einen Cyborg mit dessen Aussehen erschaffen lässt. Das Besondere an diesem Cyborg: Er ist nicht nur noch ausgereifter als Yul, er kann auch seine Gestalt wandeln. Noel und Tony gehen Kull in die Falle und bekommen es mit Droosa zu tun, genannt: Der Sternenteufel.

Ein Scheck über eine Milliarde Credits. Der Preis schien für immer verloren, doch nun funkelt er wieder vor ihren Augen und zieht unser Pärchen magisch an. Die Piraten, die Uldaner, die Zatrathi - all das spielt jetzt keine Rolle mehr. Das endgültige Ziel ist so nah. Sie müssen nur noch die Hand ausstrecken und es ergreifen. Doch das Glück wird sich Chirurg nicht kampflos hingeben. Es kommt nur zu denen, die sich beweisen.

Alex Sheppard flies to the Demonic Games, hoping that he and his friends Malik and Tissa can do the impossible and achieve victory. Almost 400 players are invited to the Games, the best of the best from all walks of Dis. Champions of the arena and the battlefields, gryphon races and pet battles; the very best craftspeople and grand masters of their professions.... All of them await the arrival of Scyth the Class-A Threat, who must now prove his worth without his divine abilities to help him. 

 Your parents are getting divorced. Now, once you turn 16, you'll be doomed to a pitiful existence on the lowest rungs of society. The neighbor girl got plastic surgery for your sake and is levelling fast to impress you. A Sleeping God gave you its power, but now demands absolute loyalty and obedience, even in real life. Something called the Destroying Plague wants its Emissary to infect everyone alive and, as luck would have it, that Emissary is you! But the city sees you as its salvation, not a cause of great suffering.

The story of sixteen-year-old Alex Sheppard and his friends is drawing to a close. Yet again, Scyth, Alex's character, has to do the impossible. And the day of the battle between his allies and the Children of Kratos marks the end of peace in Disgardium. The world will never be the same again.

Es stellt sich heraus, dass ein Kerkeraufenthalt den eigenen Plänen gehörig einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen kann. In seinem neuesten Abenteuer wird Clyde Hatchett zu Unrecht inhaftiert und beschuldigt, die Prinzessin selbst geschlagen zu haben. Da er zum Tode verurteilt ist und ihm die Zeit davonläuft, liegt Clydes einzige Hoffnung darin, eine Reihe von unmöglichen Aufgaben zu erfüllen. Denn in Glaton reicht es nicht aus, unschuldig zu sein, um deinen Hals zu retten – vor allem nicht, wenn du anderen einen Gefallen schuldest.

Die Erde war nie mehr dieselbe nach dem Release von Welt der Verwandelten. Die Menschheit wurde in zwei Lager geteilt: in mordlustige Monster und Spieler, die alles taten, um zu überleben. All die Zankereien, mit denen die Menschen zuvor ihre Zeit verbracht hatten? - Vorbei. Wer den nächsten Sonnenaufgang erleben wollte, musste mit jedem zusammenarbeiten, mit dem er konnte - von anderen Spielern bis hin zu Funktionen des Spiels. Mark Derwin, der in der Anfangsphase des Spiels zum fortgeschrittensten Spieler aufgestiegen war, wusste nur zu gut, dass sein Level ihm keinen Vorteil brachte.

Sorry... Really? Thrust? Anyway, Danny Kendrick was a down-on-his luck performer who always struggled to find his place. He certainly never wanted to be a hero. He just hoped to earn a living doing what he loved. That all changes when he pisses off the wrong guy and gets sucked into a fantasy realm straight out of a Renaissance Fair.

Was ist ein Klan in einem Computerspiel ohne eigene Burg? Die Antwort liegt auf der Hand: gar nichts. Deshalb ist es eines der Hauptziele jedes Klananführers in der Welt eines Spiels, eine solche Basis für alle Aktivitäten in die Finger zu bekommen. In genau dieser Position befindet sich auch Hochschamane Mahan, Anführer des Klans der "Legenden von Barliona". Deshalb nimmt er den Auftrag des Imperators von Malabar und des Dunklen Lords von Kartoss an, die Armee der Phantome zu besiegen, die Altameda bevölkern, die Phantomburg.

Alex Sheppard returns to the real world only to realize that it's game over for him. At the age of sixteen, he's destroyed the carefully laid plans of the most powerful people in the world, incurring their wrath. Now they're thirsting for his blood, and they know where to find him. The criminal Triad, the two-faced Cartel, the hypocritical preventers were child's play, nothing more. But he has to operate outside the law now his sworn enemies rule the planet.

Scyth, known in the Inferno as the tiefling Hakkar, decanus in the worst legion of them all, must gain an audience with Prince Belial to get his hands on the Coals of Hellflame. Alex Sheppard faces the most stressful week of his life, and if he can't handle the pressure, then it might be his last.

Zwölf Spieler begeben sich auf eine Reise durch die Online-Welt von Galactogon, angelockt durch den enormen Gewinn, den die Spieleigentümer versprechen. Die Frage ist: Wer wird lange genug leben, um seine Geschichte erzählen zu können? Wer von den zwölf Spielern ist ein potenzieller Held - und wer wird zum Verräter? Wer von ihnen wird die Schwachen verteidigen und wer wird zum ultimativen Herrscher des Bösen? Ritter oder Feigling? Jeder und jede der Zwölf wird sich entscheiden müssen. Sie alle werden ein Pokerface aufsetzen.

Scyth, known in the Inferno as the tiefling Hakkar, decanus in the worst legion of them all, must gain an audience with Prince Belial to get his hands on the Coals of Hellflame.

After returning to Cali Bottom and the wider world of Disgardium, Alex realizes that the Demonic Games were a vacation compared to the problems he now faces. He has to help the beta players stuck in the Nether and decide what to do with his friends who "betrayed" him; identify a real traitor and prepare for the citizenship tests; and reach the Inferno to obtain Coals of Hellflame and destroy the Nucleus, whose legates, now free, have gained new powers thanks to the pantheon of dark gods who have joined the Destroying Plague. 

Having emerged from the sandbox into the wide world of Disgardium, Scyth and his friends find themselves under the watchful eye of the preventers. The strongest clans in the world hunt not only Scyth, but also the already discovered "threat" Crag, a member of the Awoken clan. But this is just one of many problems; the Sleeping God has another impossible quest for them.