In the 2030s, the virtual reality game Thousand Tales is becoming a home for AIs and digitized human minds. The virtual worldβs people strive to build a happy new society of magic, transformation and adventure, while staying relevant to a real world that still needs them. These short stories are fi
Extra Life
β Scribed by Derek Nikitas
- Publisher
- Polis Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Russ has never been your typical teen. After being expelled, Russ has started to get his life back on track. He's a pop culture junkie, and living in a town where the popular teen soap "Cape Twilight" is filmed, how could he not be? So when Russ decides to make his own short film, he recruits the (emotionally unhinged) star of "Cape Twilight" and his own motley crew to help out. Seems like a great idea...until the plan blows up in Russ's face.
Just when everything seems to be falling apart, Russ receives a message on his cell phone -- from himself. Recorded in the future, 'future Russ' informes him that the day can be fixed if he's willing to use an app to leap twelve hours into the past. Russ is happy to oblige, figuring the day can't get any worse. But he couldn't be more wrong. Because as soon as Russ tampers with time and space, he introduces dangerous glitches he can't control, including alternate of himself. And suddenly Russ's sanity and the lives of...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In **Like Life** βs __ eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Mooreβs characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, canβt quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apart