"Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where mega-corporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-
Soda Pop Soldier: A Novel
โ Scribed by Nick Cole
- Publisher
- Harper Collins;Harper Voyager
- Year
- 2014;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Call of Duty meets Ready Player One in this fast-paced, action-packed novel from the author of The Wasteland Saga. Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online Modern Warfare combat sport arena where mega-corporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out. But times are tough and the rent is due, and when players need extra dough, there's always the Black, an illegal open source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free rein in the Wastehavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world. All too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a mad man intent on hacking the global economy for himself.
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"This smart combination of video-game action and stinging dystopian satire is meticulously assembled... [The narrator] manages to be a tough, snarky warrior battling his corrupt society's worst excesses. This is a cheeky and enjoyable effort by an author to watch." (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
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"Gamers and action adventure fans will find something to like here. I devoured this book over the course of one day. I might have finished earlier, but work got in the way." (SFRevu)
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"With Soda Pop Soldier , Nick Cole twists realities and bends minds for a wild ride of an action thriller. Inventive and lots of strange fun." (New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry)
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"Without a doubt this book is going to be a classic gamer required reading. It is a science-fiction and first-person gamer's nirvana. ...This book is a five out of five stars." (The Nameless Zine)
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"Pumping action, and fantastic futuristic battle is matched with a take on modern advertising that I can't help but love. I'm really impressed with how well Cole writes action, I did not want to put this down!"
-BoingBoing.com
From the Back Cover
Hardboiled Noir Meets Cyberpunk in this LITRPG Thriller!
When the virtual world gets real . . .
Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat-sport arena where megacorporations field entire armies in the battle for dominance over real-world global-advertising space. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using dropships and state-of-the-art assault rifles to attack the enemy.
But when times are tough, there's always the Black, an illegal open-source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free reign. And what begins as PerfectQuestion's onetime effort to make some cash quickly turns dangerous.
All too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a madman intent on hacking the global economy for himself and fights to stay alive--in WarWorld, in the Black, and in the real world.
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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