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Nullform #1 by Dem Mikhailov
In this world, everyone starts with no memory and no recollection of their past life. In this world, you have nothing - even your limbs are rented, and you'll have to pay up every day. In this world, you must complete tasks assigned to you by the System or be fined and stripped of everything, including your arms and legs. In this world, you're under unrelenting supervision. But in dark corners hidden from the System's watchful eye, violence, brutality, and lawlessness abound.In this world, you're assigned a number. You're a volitional Nullform. Now it's up to you to adapt to this reality and try to survive without ending up crippled. Just don't mess up, or you'll be wishing you were dead as you dig yourself deeper into an endless pit of debt. This world will not take pity on you. You'll have to work tirelessly to earn the right to live another day...Read the first book in a new series from the author who brought you Clan Dominance: The Sleepless Ones.An author who helped create the cult LitRPG genre.An author who never ceases to amaze!
Zum Aussterben verdammt #1: Der Code von James D. Prescott
Die Wahrheit über die menschliche Evolution ist über viele Zeitalter hinweg verborgen geblieben.Bis heute ...Geophysiker Jack Greer glaubt, endlich den Ort gefunden zu haben, an dem vor 65 Millionen Jahren der Meteorit einschlug, der zur Vernichtung der Dinosaurier führte. Ein paar Kilometer vor der Küste der Halbinsel Yukatan transportieren Jack und sein Team eine alte Bohrplattform zum Landekrater, um sich eine Probe zu beschaffen. Doch tief in der Erde vergraben wartet eine schockierende Entdeckung auf sie, die droht, alles zunichte zu machen, das wir über unsere Spezies zu wissen glaubten.Welten davon entfernt erreicht die Genetikerin Dr. Mia Ward eine mysteriöse Lieferung von ihrem ehemaligen Chef und Mentor Alan Salzburg. Sie enthält Hinweise auf eine düstere Warnung, verborgen im menschlichen Erbgut. Eines der menschlichen Gene sagt den Untergang der Menschheit voraus.Salzburgs Anweisungen für Mia sind simpel: Sie hat für die Sicherheit dieser Informationen zu sorgen und darf, und das ist das Wichtigste, niemandem vertrauen. Diese Worte sind umso erschreckender, als Alan tot aufgefunden wird. Doch wer hat diese warnende Nachricht verfasst? Und was bedeutet sie? Allein Jack Greer verfügt über die Antworten. Aber kann sie ihn rechtzeitig genug erreichen, um die menschliche Rasse noch zu retten?
League of Losers: A Cat and His Human
When our protagonist Andrei discovers that his girlfriend has cheated on him, he finds himself with an unexpected choice to make: a quick death, or a new life in another world he knows absolutely nothing about. Andrei chooses life, and sets off alongside his pet, a ginger cat with a limp, for a primeval world fraught with danger. The trouble is... who is whose pet becomes entirely unclear; the man's consciousness is split between both creatures, and the little cat gets a far greater share of intelligence and wit than his hulking master. What do you do as a weak little kitty? Abandon the clumsy human who always seems to get into trouble, go in search of a new master? Or protect your human body in the hope of one day returning to it?
The Bard from Barliona: The Renegades
Barliona is back! OLD WORLD, NEW HEROES!What would happen if a professional rock musician joined a virtual MMO in search of inspiration among its gameworld? What would happen if she decided to play as a biota bard, a brand new race of humanoid flora as well as a new class? Whatever would happen, it would surely be fun...
The Neuro, Book 1: The Crystal Sphere by A. Livadny
Alex is one of us. An office rat during daytime, he spends sleepless nights playing his favorite MMO game: a familiar, predictable world which is about to collapse. A new virtual universe arrives to replace it, aggressively devouring all others: the Crystal Sphere.Alex gets involved in testing new technologies which promise to revolutionize gaming. Fitted out with a neuroimplant which provides a 100% authenticity of experience, he has to survive in the Crystal Sphere against all odds. What is he turning into? Will he become yet another expendable test subject - or the first player to transcend reality?
Dark Paladin: The Beginning
Is it easy to survive in the game world? You could say yes, if you didn't know what the additional conditions were. They are unusual: it's the real world in which you have lived all your life. The enemy, craving to destroy you. Your own class who couldn't care less about you. Are you still sure that survival is easy? Then welcome to THE GAME! It will prove you wrong.
History of the Galaxy: Blind Punch
Year 2197.Earth is suffering from the consequences of an environmental catastrophe. Cities the size of continents are drowning in a toxic industrial fog.Max Bourne is a typical teenager. Like billions of other people, he is forced to live in the protective shell of the individual life support module. His habitat is the virtual Layer. But one day, circumstances force the young man to leave the in-mode. He has no idea that fate will lead him through unimaginable hardships, bring him face to face with military AIs, and teach him to survive in the distant Outlands. He will come to understand that the sum of all technologies, possessed by the four leading corporations of Earth, can either open the way to the stars or destroy human civilization.
The Kartoss Gambit (LitRPG The Way of the Shaman: Book #2) by Vasily Mahanenko
A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result, the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money. It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's vitual mines. Dmitry Mahan has been through it all. Sentenced to eight years hard labor, he now struggles with an unpopular class - the Shaman - and an equally unpopular profession of a Jeweler. His fight for survival becomes anything but virtual.
The URANUS Code (Citadel World, book 1)
Rick was born and raised in the Omicron Commune, protected from the monsters and darkness of the Expanse outside with thick walls. A place with barely enough light to see by, constantly gripped by the cold. The death of the Commune is only a question of time. Meeting visitors from the Expanse turns Rick's view of the world upside down. It turns out that there are other humans that live outside and fight to survive, while the Commune is but one of many sectors of Expanse. Rick's new goal becomes saving the commune from destruction. Worried about the future of his sister, he puts his trust in the outsiders, escaping the Commune to find and restart the mysterious thermal generators, find the key and solve the riddle of the gigantic Thermopolis--a high-tech citadel created by the ancestors.He is now a rebel and a heretic and there's no turning back!
Moskau (a dystopian thriller) by George Zotov
The 21-century SS Sturmbannführer Loktev embarks on a crazy and impossible mission. Whole areas of planet Earth have begun to disappear, revealing portals to other realities and filling the world with the identities of long-dead people. A "trigger agent" of the disaster is on the loose in a world ruled by the victorious allies Germany and Japan. If Loktev doesn't stop the looming catastrophe, the Nazis might regret they won the war back in 1941. From Russia's bestselling science fiction author G. Zotov comes a book which is equal parts alternative history, dystopia and satire. Lovers of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle will appreciate the author's dry black humor and psychedelic imagination which rule the streets of a post-apocalyptic Nazi-controlled Moscow.
Project Daily Grind (Mirror World LitRPG series Book #1) by Alexey Osadchuk
The ads enthused, "The virtual lands of Mirror World await you! Live out your most secret dreams in our world of Sword and Sorcery! Become a Great Wizard or a Famous Warrior! Build your own castle, tame a dragon, conquer a kingdom! All those desperate, lonely and insecure - Mirror World offers you a chance!"But Oleg isn't meant to become a great wizard or a famous warrior. He'll never have a castle of his own. Neither will he ever tame a dragon. And he's definitely not the type to conquer a kingdom, however virtual it may be.Oleg is doomed to toil away in the recesses of Mirror World's mines. His goal is to raise enough money for a heart transplant for his dying six-year-old daughter. The clock is ticking. Will he make it?
Edge of Reality (LitRPG series Phantom Sever: Book #1) by Andrei Livadny
This is a new book in the LitRPG genre.He is a cyber dweller. A gamer who's grown up in the web of virtual illusion woven from hundreds of phantom worlds. His biggest dream is to dump the real world for good.His desperate hunger of new experiences forces him to take a risk and become one of the first proud owners of a neuronet implant. The new gadget becomes part of him - but soon it's not enough. If only he could finally burn all his bridges and make a step beyond the real world!He soon gets this opportunity. A new universe, overflowing with mystery and unimaginable, mind-blowing authenticity, opens up before him.This is Phantom Server. The game of the future where your pursuit of an adrenaline rush soon turns into a battle for survival. But the most terrifying mystery lies ahead when you gradually start to realize: this is a road of no return. Your every decision may become your last. Your every step leads you further along the abyss between life and death.If you can't wait to find out what happens next the full novel is available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WR7WRMS
Start The Game (LitRPG series Galactogon: Book #1) by Vasily Mahanenko
Twelve players set off through the online world of Galaktogon, lured by the game owners' promise of an enormous payoff. The question is, who will survive to tell the tale? Which of the twelve is a potential hero - or a traitor in the making? Which of them will defend the weak and who will become the ultimate evil overlord?A knight or a coward? Each of the twelve will have to choose his or her path. Each will keep a poker face. But if the billion-pound prize calls your name, you can't conceal your choice. And you will do everything to lay your hands on it.If you can't wait to find out what happens next the full novel is available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012B9L0DI/
The Illustrious (The Sublime Electricity Book #1) by Pavel Kornev
In this world, science took the place of magic. Meanwhile, the transition from the era of steam to the epoch of Sublime Electricity is already underway. But magic hasn't simply disappeared without a trace. It still exists, concealed in the blood of the illustrious. Detective constable Leopold Orso of the metropolitan police counts himself among their number. He was bestowed a talent that allows him to bring others' fears to life.Leopold didn't go looking for trouble. All he really wanted was to gain access to his rightful inheritance. But, his peaceful life came to an end when a box from his grandmother's estate caught the interest of a mysterious cabal of conspirators, police and bloodthirsty malefics.His new enemies have an arsenal of six-barreled machine guns, backpack flamethrowers and hordes of hellspawn. He may escape with his life, but it won't be easy!
An NPC's Path: The Dead Rogue (LitRPG series)
A LitRPG novel by Pavel KornevVirtual worlds are places of boundless freedom. Anyone can become an elven mage or an invisible rogue, join a clan and go on raids, fight, develop their characters and most importantly, escape from the daily grind.However, a game is only a game if you can quit. This is something I learned the hard way. I just wanted to let off some steam in virtual reality and ended up getting murdered and imprisoned in the body of one of the undead-slow, clumsy and cursed to die at the hand of other players over and over again.The only way out of this awful predicament was to find the legendary Scroll of Rebirth, but the helpless plague-ridden corpse would need to be turned into a real killing machine. If only people knew what it was like to level up a dead rogue...
Edge of the Abyss (Respawn Trials Book #1) LitRPG Series by A. Livadny
He had thought that he'd already experienced everything that a normal life had to offer. He'd thought he could clearly see what his future holds. Then a sudden phone call changed everything. The Edge of the Abyss was the first full-scale virtual reality, where he was asked to complete a simple task... and which turned out to be far from heaven.He found himself in a terrifyingly realistic digital world whose rules he didn't know. Seemingly simple tasks suddenly required him to make moral choices - while refusing to do them would take him to places where the barrage of respawns could send one mad...
The Knockout by Max Lagno and Dan Sugralinov (LitRPG series)
If you have read the original Level Up series, we would like to warn you at once: the book has another protagonist, although the setting is the same. The chronology of the events described in this book is the same as that of the first two books in the Level Up series (Restart and Hero)Mike Hagen, an American nicknamed "Crybaby," became one of those chosen to be given an augmented reality interface. However, his favorite game was an MMA fighter-possibly, for the reason that he'd never fought in real life, and the interface adapted itself to him.Will Hagen be able to use it right? And will it help him to crawl out of the dreary pit of his existence?
Toter Schurke (Der Weg eines NPCs Buch Nr. 1) LitRPG-serie
In virtuellen Welten herrscht grenzenlose Freiheit. Man kann sich nach Lust und Laune in einen Elfenzauberer oder einen unsichtbaren Schurken verwandeln, sich einem Clan anschließen und auf Raubzug gehen, kämpfen, den eigenen Charakter weiterentwickeln und vor allen Dingen dem Alltagstrott entkommen.Ein Spiel ist allerdings nur dann ein Spiel, wenn man jederzeit aufhören kann. Das musste ich am eigenen Leib erfahren. Eigentlich wollte ich mich in der virtuellen Realität lediglich etwas ablenken, doch ich wurde ermordet und im Körper eines Untoten gefangen - langsam, schwerfällig und dazu verdammt, wieder und wieder durch die Hand anderer Spieler zu sterben.Aus dieser schrecklichen Lage gab es nur einen Ausweg: Ich musste die legendäre Schriftrolle der Wiedergeburt zu finden. Doch das war nur möglich, wenn aus dem hilflosen, pestverseuchten Leichnam eine echte Kampfmaschine wurde. Niemand kann sich vorstellen, was man alles durchmacht, wenn man einen toten Schurken hochleveln will ...
Neustart (Nächstes Level Buch 1) LitRPG-Serie
Phil ist dreißig Jahre alt, arbeitslos und leidenschaftlicher Gamer. Seine einzige Einnahmequelle ist das Schreiben von Artikeln - wenn er genügend Inspiration spürt, um seinen alles andere als beliebten Blog zu bereichern. Kein Wunder also, dass er Probleme hat, über die Runden zu kommen. Sogar seine Frau hat inzwischen sowohl ihren Glauben an ihn als auch ihre Geduld mit ihm verloren.Eines Tages wird Phils Gehirn auf rätselhafte Weise durch eine mysteriöse „Wetware" bereichert. In seinen Kopf scheint eine Spieloberfläche implantiert worden zu sein, die dafür sorgt, dass er die gesamte Welt durch die Augen eines RPG-Spielers betrachten kann. Jetzt entdeckt Phil die Statistiken seines wirklichen Lebens. Dabei stellt er fest, dass diese verdammt unterdurchschnittlich sind. Seine Beweglichkeit liegt bei 4 Punkten, seine Stärke bei 6 Punkten und sein Durchhaltevermögen bei 3 Punkten. Die Fertigkeit, in der er am weitesten fortgeschritten ist - und das kommt wenig überraschend - ist das Spielen von Computerspielen.Dank der Statistiken und Meldungen des Systems erkennt Phil, wie viele Fehler er bisher im Leben gemacht hat. Doch das allein reicht nicht aus, und es kommt ohnehin zu spät: Seine Frau hat endgültig genug und lässt ihn ohne Geld und sinnvolle Aufgabe allein zurück.Zum Glück können die Statistiken im wirklichen Leben ebenso gesteigert werden wie die virtuellen. Aber kann das Phil dabei helfen, seine Frau zurückzugewinnen? Seinen Arsch vom Sofa zu schwingen? Macht es ihn durchtrainierter? Oder erfolgreicher? Kann er seine in Computerspielen erworbenen Fähigkeiten endlich einmal im wirklichen Leben einsetzen?Und schließlich: Kann er herausfinden, wer dieses geheimnisvolle Spiel in sein Gehirn hochgeladen hat? Und wie bitte soll er mit dieser unbekannten, aber augenscheinlich allmächtigen Macht umgehen?
Countdown (Unterwerfung der Wirklichkeit Buch 1) Michael Atamanov
ENDLICH HATTE EINE außerirdische Zivilisation die Erde erreicht. Der erste Kontakt hatte tatsächlich stattgefunden. Auf der Erde allerdings hielt man das Ganze für nichts weiter als einen schlechten Scherz. Noch weniger Menschen hatten begriffen, für welch kurze Zeitspanne unsere neuen Oberherren die Sicherheit unseres Planeten garantiert hatten.Am Ende ihrer Ansprache zeigten sie der Menschheit jedoch, wie man Zugriff auf ein mysteriöses Spiel erhielt. Der Zweck dieses Spiels ist unklar. Niemand kann sagen, wo sich dessen Server befinden, oder begreift, wie es funktioniert. Dennoch erweckte das Spiel allmählich das Interesse von immer mehr Spielern. Bald war es mehr als offensichtlich, dass die Ereignisse im Spiel einen direkten Einfluss auf unsere Wirklichkeit hatten. Und nicht nur auf unsere...Doch während wir noch lernen, wie dieses mysteriöse Spiel funktioniert, läuft ein unaufhörlicher Countdown. Und niemand kann genau sagen, was passiert, wenn die Sicherheit der Erde nicht mehr gewährleistet ist.
Re-start (Level Up - 1) by Dan Sugralinov
"A very good book. My life stopped for five hours!" - Vasily Mahanenko"Hugely motivating! A fast-paced, easy read which was worth the sleepless night. On to Book Two!" - Alexey Osadchuk"A Real-LitRPG author faces the challenging task of walking the tightrope, doing a balancing act between the drab normalcy of everyday routine and the hero's larger-than-life adventures which might prove too improbable to convince the skeptical reader. In this book, however, Sugralinov has successfully pulled off both!" - Michael AtamanovAt thirty years old, Phil is an unemployed gamer who struggles to make ends meet. His only source of income is freelance writing (when he feels inspired enough to add another article to his less-than-popular blog). His wife has just walked out on him, leaving him without money, purpose, or food in the fridge.On the day his wife dumps him, Phil receives a mysterious piece of wetware. A game interface seems to have been implanted in his brain which allows him to see the world through the eyes of an RPG player.Now that Phil discovers his real-life stats, he can see they're far below average. With 4 pt. Agility, 6 pt. Strength and 3 pt. Stamina, his most advanced life skill is predictably gaming.Luckily, real-life stats can be leveled up just like virtual ones. But will it help Phil get his wife back? Can he stop being such a couch potato? Would the new game help him become fitter? Or more successful? Can his gaming skills finally come in handy in real life?Last but not least, can he find out who could have uploaded the mysterious game to his brain? And how is he supposed to deal with this unknown but apparently omnipotent force?
Blood of Fate (World 99 Book #1): LitRPG Wuxia Series by Dan Sugralinov
The body of young paralyzed Luca, a boy killed by cruel bullies, becomes home to an interdimensional traveler. This is the ninety ninth world for this traveler who has spent an entire life in each of his previous worlds. And now he is out of lives, his previous misdeeds leaving him with a negative balance of points and preventing him from reincarnating anew. Once he realizes that he must spend his final life in a poverty-stricken family in a backward world, he awakens the consciousness of the deceased Luca and ends his own physical existence, leaving all his abilities to his heir.One such ability is the use of the Wheel. Every traveler can spend points to spin the Wheel and gain a special talent, a superpower, or... a deadly illness. Luca spins the Wheel and gains the superpower of metamorphosis. Now he can regenerate, recover from deadly wounds and even take on the shape of other beings. The young man takes on the form of the Emperor: to avoid death, help his family and, finally, to bring order to the Empire!
Video Game Plotline Tester (The Dark Herbalist Book #1) by Michael Atamanov
Tell me, would you be willing to work for nothing? Busting your hump for a famous corporation without time off or weekends eight or more hours every day with no fixed salary, just the vague promise of possible "perks" in the far future? Your answer would probably be a hard "no." But what if this job was playing a video game set in a vibrant and realistic fantasy world? And what if MMORPG's were the only thing you'd ever really been able to do well? And what if, also, you'd be playing side by side with the person closest to you in the whole world and, for them, virtual gaming was the closest they could get to real life? So then, perhaps the elusive incentives, which could cover all your expenses, weren't as hard to earn as you thought at first glance? Would you dare find out?
Sector Eight (LitRPG series Perimeter Defense: Book #1) by Michael Atamanov
A strange body that refuses to obey you; a weird game you can't quit until your contract expires; a world teeming with powerful and very real enemies. The game in which your reputation and faction relationship are the only things that matter. These are the conditions of the agreement Ruslan signs without reading. The only thing he remembers is that he's been contracted to command a space fleet in a brand new game he knows nothing about. Objective: to survive for six months. After having made some inevitable newb mistakes, Ruslan has to rethink his strategy, dropping traditional gaming conventions. But what will it cost him? What new trials and tribulations await him that even the game designers have failed to anticipate?
Adam Online: Absolute Zero by Max Lagno (LitRPG series)
The days when people played for entertainment have passed. Welcome to the future. The virtual world of Adam Online is a place where humanity lives. The former champion has returned to the game to find the Mentors -- systems of artificial intelligence that bestow digital immortality on humans.But do they truly work for the benefit of mankind? To learn the truth and reach the Mentors who inhabit places undiscovered, the hero must begin from level zero.
Survival Quest (LitRPG series The Way of the Shaman: Book #1) by V. Mahanenko
Read Epic LitRPG Saga from one of the best author - father of the genre in the World!Barliona. A virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: you can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard or a legendary thief. The only rule that attempted to regulate the game demanded that no player was allowed to feel actual pain.But there's an exception to every rule. For a certain bunch of players, Barliona has become their personal hell. They are criminals sent to Barliona to serve their time. They aren't in it for the dragons' gold or the abundant loot. All they want is to survive the virtual inferno. They face the ultimate survival quest.If you can't wait to find out what happens next the full novel is available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VQRW14E or read in paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1516872339/