The Seventh Glitch

The Seventh Glitch
Authors
Tonder, Ronel van
Publisher
Ronel van Tonder
Tags
science fiction
Date
2016-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.46 MB
Lang
en
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After a glitch brought on by a cyber-terrorism attack, a newbie player is trapped inside the online dreamscape of The Game. She must reach The Game's seventh rift to escape, but with every passing rift the glitches brought on by the initial attack become more deadly.

The Game is the first of its kind: an online dreamscape where fantasy is reality. With 12 million players on its launch date, it's the biggest success the corporate gaming world has ever seen, despite a few hundred pirated players that sneaked in for a free ride. But when the servers crash after a strange glitch, thousands of gamers are trapped inside The Game's now unreliable dreamscape.

When a feisty newbie is separated from her co-op partner, she teams up with a stray player to head for what a random bulletin message claims is their only hope for salvation: reaching the infamous Arena at Bang-Bang Island.

But as Kitty and the experienced stranger make their way across the rifts of the now very unstable game, Kitty realises that her new teammate has been deceiving her. As she gains a deeper understanding of what's really happening to The Game, Kitty is forced to decide between finding her own way home or relying on the knowledge of the tricksome stranger who's been helping her through the rifts for his own selfish purposes.

With time running out, and the glitches becoming more frequent and destructive, Kitty must find her partner and get to the Arena before The Game unravels around her, leaving her mind trapped inside forever, unable to escape The Game's dazzling yet deadly cage.