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    S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND (Episodes 1 + 2: Deep Into the Game + Failsafe): S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND Season One, #1
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    S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND (Episodes 1 + 2: Deep Into the Game + Failsafe): S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND Season One, #1
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    S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND (Episodes 1 + 2: Deep Into the Game + Failsafe): S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND Season One, #1

    By Saul Tanpepper

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    6 Hackers, 1 Game... and 10,000 Undead.

    Everyone loves watching Survivalist, a live-action, virtual reality show based on Arc Entertainment's The Game, where real zombies battle in a Long Island wasteland. It's a show to die for.

    With enough money, you can buy your way in as a Gamer to control one of the undead warriors. If you're desperate enough, you can volunteer to become one of the Players. Jessie Daniels and her gang of computer hackers plan to break their way in.

    Welcome to GAMELAND. Access Restricted.

    EPISODE 1: Deep Into The Game
    A reckless, end-of-summer jaunt leads Jessie and her friends onto Long Island just hoping for a glimpse of the infected victims of a decades-old outbreak. But while breaking in is easy, getting back out is a killer. It doesn't take long before they realize they're part of The Game.

    EPISODE 2: Failsafe
    Jessie and Kelly clash after one of their group gets stranded among the Infected Undead, forcing Kelly to make a rash decision which will ultimately deliver them into the hands of those who would turn them all into mindless players in The Game.

    Deep into the Game and Failsafe are the first two books in the hi-tech dystopian thriller GAMELAND. Season One is structured after television's The Walking Dead and Law and Order. All are available digitally in single and multi-episode packages, as well as in an omnibus edition. Also available in print.

    Not recommended for readers under age 15.

    Want more GAMELAND?
    For insight into the world of GAMELAND, including how it all started, check out the short story Golgotha, available individually in digital format as well as in the short story collection Shorting the Undead and Other Horrors, by the same author (print and digital).

    Also available from the world of GAMELAND:
    Infected: Hacked Files from the GAMELAND Archive. Includes a timeline of key events, a glossary of terms, character dossiers, essays, articles and never-before-released voice transcripts from the Golgotha recordings. 

    Velveteen. The story of Cassie, a six-year-old girl-turned-zombie, who has been trapped in a bathroom... until her inadvertent release twelve years later (by Jessie in Episode 4 of GAMELAND). Cassie has something she needs to do, something she's been thinking about for a long, long time. A terrifying twist on a classic children's tale.

    Love, Virtuality, and the Good Kill. The start of a new spin-off series featuring Jessie's brother, Eric, and his time in the Marines' elite Omega Force using zombies as killing drones. First publication: The Future Chronicles: Gameer Chronicles anthology.

    SUBSCRIBE to the Tanpepper Tidings on  Saul's website at tanpepperwrites to receive advance notice of new releases, special (and exclusive) pricing events and giveaways, signings and appearances. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrinestone Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781501404054
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    S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND (Episodes 1 + 2: Deep Into the Game + Failsafe): S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND Season One, #1
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    Saul Tanpepper

    Subscribe for new releases & exclusive deals/giveaways: tinyletter.com/SWTanpepper Saul Tanpepper is the specfic pen name of author Ken J. Howe, a PhD molecular biologist and former Army medic and trauma specialist.  Titles include: The post-apocalyptic series GAMELAND (recommended reading order): - Golgotha (prequel, optional) - Episodes 1-4 - Velveteen (standalone novella, optional) - Episodes 5-8 - Infected: Hacked Files From the Gameland Archive (insights for the avid GAMELAND fan) - Jessie's Game #1: Signs of Life - A Dark and Sure Descent - Jessie's Game #2: Dead Reckoning Post-apocalyptic series BUNKER 12 - Contain - Books 2-4 (coming soon) International medical thriller serial THE FLENSE (a BUNKER 12 companion series) - CHINA: Books 1-3 - ICELAND: Book 1-3 - AFRICA: Books 1-3 - TBA Short story collections: Shorting the Undead & Other Horrors Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror Visit him at tanpepperwrites.com

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      OK, to bring you up to date. The author asked if I would like to read the first book in a series he published. The synopsis sounded good and I committed. Before I could find time to read it, I discovered a prequel called, Golgotha, which I bought and read and downright loved. 5 Stars.Next, I discovered there were a total of 8 episodes now available in The Season One Omnibus of S. W. Tanpepper's Gameland, so I bought that for a very reasonable price and set about reading Episode 1: Deep Into the Game.I'm really enjoying the story, but at this stage, I though it should have had better proofreading. Especially since this is now a published series and not just an Advance Readers Copy.Example: "...I can see that he's only trying scaring her into remembering." Maybe "trying to scare her into remembering" would have been better. Then there's "What would a zombie o after reanimating underwater?" I'm sure the "o" should be "do". There were several of these kinds of errors. Thus, a 4 star instead of a 5 star review.In the prequel novella, Golgotha, we learned how the Government found a way of reanimating the dead, creating what were initially called Zulus and later discovering how they could put them under computer control using L.I.N.C.s (Latent Individualized, Neuroleptic Connections), thus creating zombie fighters they could control, known as the Omegaman Forces.In Gameland, it's 15 years later and between climate change and periodic zombie outbreaks, times are definitely changed. Consider the Life Service Law, Now everyone is legally considered government property after death. You die, you become Undead and you serve the government in some capacity until your time of servitude is ended. Then there's Gameland, Long Island is cut off completely, "after the second flood, the Army Corps of Engineers went in and walled it off and evacuated the people still alive." Later Arc Properties converted one of the zones into a new type of gaming arcade, which they called Gameland. Then they imported a new crop of Zombies as Players. It costs more than a million bucks to buy into the game.A group of 6 teenage hackers with more spunk than brains decide it might be fun to see if they can get onto Long Island and check it out. S. W. Tanpepper is very good with dialog, I found the banter between the characters to be comfortable and convincing. The story is fast-paced and despite the subject matter, very believable.Episode 1: Deep Into the Game, ends with a cliff-hanger and I want to dive right back in to Episode 2: Failsafe, and after a few few quick reads of other works that I've committed myself to read, that's just what I plan on doing.If you can get past a few grammatical/sentence structure errors, this one is a lot of fun.Available in a variety of e-book formats as well as paperback. If you think you'll like these books, get the prequel and the omnibus will save a you a few bucks.