Aliens

by Conor Kostick

"This is, in my view, the most important Irish novel of this year." (Celia Keenan, Sunday Independent, praising Epic) From the award-winning author of the international best-seller, Epic, comes a new series of short books exploring virtual reality. These are the tales of Eternal Voyager. Tales from a distant future in which all life is virtual. Everyone in the Metaverse takes for granted the ability to teleport; to change shape; to create entire planets for their playgrounds and to make backup copies of themselves, so they cannot permanently die. And what do these people who live beyond the conventional universe do with their powers? Mostly they party. Aliens often enter the Metaverse, but Eternal Voyager is unpleasantly surprised to find that these new silver newcomers seem to be interested in nothing else but absorbing his friends and playmates. Invulnerable to his most powerful weapons and magic items, there is only one route open to him to save the Metaverse once more and that is to enter into the mind of the alien and subvert it from within.

41 pages, Paperback

Published May 5, 2017

About the author

Conor Kostick was a designer for the world's first live action role-playing game, Treasure Trap. He is the author of many historical, political and cultural articles. Epic was his first novel and was awarded a place on the International Board on Books for Young People Honours list for 2006 and on the Booklist Best Fantasy Books for Youth list for 2007. Set in a fantasy MMORPG, Epic can be considered an early example of LitRPG. The sequel to Epic, titled Saga, was first published in Ireland in 2006. Conor received a Special Merit Award from the Reading Association of Ireland in 2009.

In 2018, Conor joined Level Up as commissioning editor to publish LitRPG books.

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