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Deep Dive
When your reality shatters, what will you do to put it back together again? Still reeling from the failure of his last project, videogame developer Peter Banuk is working hard to ensure his next game doesn’t meet the same fate. He desperately needs a win, not only to save his struggling company, but to justify the time he’s spent away from his wife and daughters. So when Peter’s tech-genius partner offers him the chance to beta-test a new state-of-the-art virtual reality headset, he jumps at it. But something goes wrong during the trial, and Peter wakes to find himself trapped in an eerily familiar world where his children no longer exist. As the lines between the real and virtual worlds begin to blur, Peter is forced to reckon with what truly matters to him. But can he escape his virtual prison before he loses his family forever? File Under: Science Fiction [ Game Grumps | Whole New Virtual World | Headset Havoc | Lost and Found ]
A Story from Twindom
Twindom is an imaginary community, outside of Nashville, where twins, separated (often by evil forces) are reunited. Most of the residents of Twindom have found each other through the Twindom website. However, some, driven by the circumstances of their existence, must travel through, and be rescued from, the Valley of Despair. Dr. Timothy Franklin and his twin brother, Thomas, a paramedic, usually make the rescues. They are spending Tim's sabbatical together in Twindom, before Tom enters medical school. The first person the Franklin twins rescued, Bob, discovers he has a twin brother when his adopted parents go through a divorce. Bob runs away shortly thereafter to keep from murdering his ad...
Gangsterizm
Set in the fictional New York City, “North city” is fraught with gang activity, gang violence, and violence in general! We follow the gang leader of the infamous gang North city eastmen “Leader” who’s goal is to one day own all of North city in the name of his gang; this proves difficult when the North city eastmen have been away for nearly two years and everyone has all but forgotten their impact on the community; who everyone haven’t forgotten however, is Dragon, the biggest crime boss in all of North city today who rules with a cruel iron fist, after meeting Leader his patience quickly wears thin making the gang lay low until they can strike once again, with more money and power.
Media Franchising
"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry." —Heather Hendershot, author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest While immediately recognizable throughout the U.S. and many other countries, media mainstays like X-Men, Star Trek, and Transformers achieved such familiarity through constant reincarnation. In each case, the initial success of a single product led...
The Caretakers
In 1965 strange things happened on the largest of three small islands that were adjacent to Vinton-le-dale which is a small fishing village on the west coast, it's nestled into the hillside and surrounded by craggy rocks with sheer drops of several hundred feet. Loud banging sounds and extremely bright flashing lights were seen and heard by the village’s oldest inhabitant Albert Trench, later after four men took a boat ride to the islands to investigate they are astounded with their findings. A silver alien ship takes off and then it circles all three islands twice then with a whooshing sound it lifted another few feet and with tremendous acceleration it shot across the sky diagonally, and in a split second disappeared into the low cloud formation and vanished from their sight as quick as you could click your fingers. Bloody hell that’s fast isn’t it? Jim stood up his eyes were fixed on the place where the ship had been, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life before, neither have we the three other men said one after the other. Other titles which are available from John E Reeson include It’s a Hard Life and Life’s harder than ever.
Love Your Enemies
Do you doubt whether there’s more to the world than what we can see in the natural? “At Ethan’s house, Aaron struggled to understand why Ethan had helped him. The reasons sounded crazy, like nothing he’d ever heard of before. His friend’s unique behaviour had created within Aaron a hunger to hear more. He hadn’t deserved Ethan’s help.” In a small city in northwestern Ontario, a close-knit family of believers finds themselves challenged to unconditionally love an enemy who seeks to kill one of their own. But is their enemy truly lost to them, or to God? Along the way, these brothers and sisters in Christ discover that they have more in common with this man than it initially appears, despite the powerful unseen forces involved. For in this world, there are two rival families—one whose purpose is to destroy, and the one whose purpose is to restore everything back to the original design of creation.
Star Trek, History and Us
Since 1966, the Star Trek television franchise has used outer space and the thrilling adventures of the crews of the U.S.S. Enterprise to reflect our own world and culture. Kirk and Spock face civil rights issues and Vietnam war allegories while Picard, Data, and the next generation seek an ordered, post-Cold War stability in the Reagan era. The crews of Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise must come to terms with our real life of war, manifest destiny in the 21st century, and the shadow of 9/11. Now, as the modern era of the franchise attempts to portray a utopia amidst a world spinning out of control, Star Trek remains about more than just the future. It is about our present. It is about us. This book charts the history of Gene Roddenberry's creation across five decades alongside the cultural development of the United States and asks: are we heading for the utopian Federation future, or is it slipping ever further away from reality?
