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Thousand Tales
Extra Lives
The game "Thousand Tales" offers exciting the first true artificial intelligence, and for some players, the chance to have their brains permanently "uploaded" into its virtual world. Uploading offers ultimate luxury for the rich, survival for the dying, a haven for criminals -- and for everyone, the chance to change and learn and make new things. As the price drops, the game's influence grows, but so do the threats against it.
The digital world has magic, transformation, and adventure for its growing new community, but its AI and ex-human people need something more to be happy. Finding it will take them to strange a forgotten battlefield, a colony on the ocean's surface, the Free State of Texas, the slums of India, and worlds that don't even exist. Can this game become a new source of freedom for the people both inside and outside it?
This book contains seven stories in the world of "Thousand Tales", an upbeat near-future vision based on realistic technology. It's fit for newcomers to the series and for fans alike. This setting is part of the "LitRPG" or "GameLit" subgenre that combines science fiction and fantasy with the world of gaming. Other volumes in the series (readable in any order) cover everything from people caught up in the game itself, to new nations springing up in the real world.
The digital world has magic, transformation, and adventure for its growing new community, but its AI and ex-human people need something more to be happy. Finding it will take them to strange a forgotten battlefield, a colony on the ocean's surface, the Free State of Texas, the slums of India, and worlds that don't even exist. Can this game become a new source of freedom for the people both inside and outside it?
This book contains seven stories in the world of "Thousand Tales", an upbeat near-future vision based on realistic technology. It's fit for newcomers to the series and for fans alike. This setting is part of the "LitRPG" or "GameLit" subgenre that combines science fiction and fantasy with the world of gaming. Other volumes in the series (readable in any order) cover everything from people caught up in the game itself, to new nations springing up in the real world.
140 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 21, 2016
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March 8, 2019
It was a little slow to start, but overall, it wasn't a bad tale. Amusing, and definitely charting its own course. I'm still on the fence whether or not I'll read more in the series, since it was funny in parts, but it wasn't really the kind of story I tend to enjoy myself, though there wasn't actually anything wrong with the story as a whole, it just didn't fit my reading preferences. it seemed too disjointed for my tastes.
May 25, 2017
All the stories were good reads.
Honestly I rated it a 4 because I find the digital uploading of people depressing. I thought the writing, treatment, characters and execution very well done. These are great stories.
Honestly I rated it a 4 because I find the digital uploading of people depressing. I thought the writing, treatment, characters and execution very well done. These are great stories.
February 20, 2020
Eclectic collection of stories in the Thousand Tales universe, with some new characters as well as previously-established ones. Fun read to fill in more regarding the author's GameLit-genre world.
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