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Worldshift: Virtual Revolution
Virtual reality gaming and the end of civilization collide in this action-packed cyberpunk adventure!
Ethan is young and unemployed. One of the many who fail to find a job and join the elite who run the government and the mega corporations. Stuck on economic support, he spends his idle days playing virtual reality games.
Yet, Ethan can’t help but feel that something is deeply wrong with society. It reaps the benefit of advanced automation, but ruthlessly forbids further scientific development. Everyone is monitored and everything is controlled to promote harmony. That uneasy feeling becomes inescapable when Ethan starts playing the latest event in the world’s most popular VR game. Countless players are lured into climbing the Tower of Ascension by an incredible cash prize. Inside, the combat is intense, but nothing is as it seems. The tower is far more than a game. Not only are its rewards very real, but so are its dangers. Players are disappearing as hidden forces prepare to seize a terrifying power.
Change is coming to a long stagnant world -a virtual revolution- and everything Ethan knows will be threatened. To survive, he will need to become far more than he ever thought possible.
Ethan is young and unemployed. One of the many who fail to find a job and join the elite who run the government and the mega corporations. Stuck on economic support, he spends his idle days playing virtual reality games.
Yet, Ethan can’t help but feel that something is deeply wrong with society. It reaps the benefit of advanced automation, but ruthlessly forbids further scientific development. Everyone is monitored and everything is controlled to promote harmony. That uneasy feeling becomes inescapable when Ethan starts playing the latest event in the world’s most popular VR game. Countless players are lured into climbing the Tower of Ascension by an incredible cash prize. Inside, the combat is intense, but nothing is as it seems. The tower is far more than a game. Not only are its rewards very real, but so are its dangers. Players are disappearing as hidden forces prepare to seize a terrifying power.
Change is coming to a long stagnant world -a virtual revolution- and everything Ethan knows will be threatened. To survive, he will need to become far more than he ever thought possible.
496 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2019
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April 13, 2023
Dystopian Future where people have no work and struggle to find meaning in life. The MC enters a competition in a VR-World where he tries to fight through a tower to higher levels for money but there may be more...
Instead of going lower level for level of a dungeon this time it goes up in a tower. It is all more a near future SF thing. The MC reminds a bit of spiderman as he shoots lines around to reel him through some obstacles. The fights are good described. Sometimes it gets a bit long. At the end is a lot of "philosophical" views on that new world but well - I cannot complain that SF does not do the philosophical stuff anymore and complain in the next step when a SF author tries a take on that.
Overall an entertaining experience even if it has it length especially in the last quarter of the book.
The end was at least in parts surprising.
Instead of going lower level for level of a dungeon this time it goes up in a tower. It is all more a near future SF thing. The MC reminds a bit of spiderman as he shoots lines around to reel him through some obstacles. The fights are good described. Sometimes it gets a bit long. At the end is a lot of "philosophical" views on that new world but well - I cannot complain that SF does not do the philosophical stuff anymore and complain in the next step when a SF author tries a take on that.
Overall an entertaining experience even if it has it length especially in the last quarter of the book.
The end was at least in parts surprising.
September 9, 2019
Book one
Mistakes: only one stuck in my head, the Mc dropped his gun twice in his first fight, but never picked it back up between drops.
Plot: The tower in a vr game is more than it seems.
Characters: Nothing about any of them made me enjoy spending my time following them.
I skipped chunks of this book don’t feel like I missed anything.
Honestly glad this was on kindle unlimited, because I’d have been mad if I’d spent money to buy a copy.
3/10
Mistakes: only one stuck in my head, the Mc dropped his gun twice in his first fight, but never picked it back up between drops.
Plot: The tower in a vr game is more than it seems.
Characters: Nothing about any of them made me enjoy spending my time following them.
I skipped chunks of this book don’t feel like I missed anything.
Honestly glad this was on kindle unlimited, because I’d have been mad if I’d spent money to buy a copy.
3/10
October 9, 2019
A Winner
One of the most entertaining Gamelit/Litepg books I’ve read in recent memory. The book was helped by having a strong theme that lightly touched or problems that currently surrounds society. The book was also supported by entertaining fight scenes, intriguing characters and fresh twists.
One of the most entertaining Gamelit/Litepg books I’ve read in recent memory. The book was helped by having a strong theme that lightly touched or problems that currently surrounds society. The book was also supported by entertaining fight scenes, intriguing characters and fresh twists.
October 9, 2019
A serious take on litrpg.
If you're tired of reading books about people becoming complete no-lifers in online games but still like litrpg style novels, definitely read this one.
It starts off with some mystery, but it's a well planned machine.
I enjoyed it! Would read again in a heartbeat.
If you're tired of reading books about people becoming complete no-lifers in online games but still like litrpg style novels, definitely read this one.
It starts off with some mystery, but it's a well planned machine.
I enjoyed it! Would read again in a heartbeat.
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