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    Signs of Life: Jessie's Game (a GAMELAND novel), #1

    By Saul Tanpepper

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    The water pelts her upturned eyes, yet she does not blink. It pools into the hollows beneath and around the blackened orbs until the solid gray of the sky bursts into brilliant prisms of color, vibrant lakes and oceans of molten light. And if she blinks, it spills out in a kaleidoscope of tears.
    If she could only blink.
    The water turns the darkness away from this dead, empty world and makes it bright once more.
    Yes, the rain is good. The rain is as close to life as she can come.

    * * * from Jessie's Game: Signs of Life * * *

    HER BLOOD HOLDS HUMANITY'S SALVATION. HER HEAD, THE MEANS TO DESTROY IT.

    As the world teeters on the brink of a technological and biomedical apocalypse, the one entity with the power to intervene, Arc Enterprises, chooses to ignore the warning signs and instead pushes forward with a new twist on their most popular product, THE GAME, where Operators control reanimated Players in a live action virtual reality arcade on abandoned Long Island. After a network lapse threatens an outbreak in her hometown, gamer Jessica Daniels stumbles on a plot to hijack the implants of the living. Now she must stop the hacker before someone she loves dies.

    A 120,000 word novel from the world of GAMELAND.

    For ages 16 and older.


    * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


    About S.W. Tanpepper's GAMELAND

    Everyone loves SURVIVALIST, a live-action, virtual reality show based on Arc Entertainment's THE GAME, where cybernetically controlled zombies do battle in a video arcade in the middle of a Long Island wasteland. It's to die for.
    If you're rich enough, you can buy your way in. If you're desperate enough, you can volunteer to become one of the Undead Players. Jessie Daniels and her gang of computer hackers plan to break their way in.


    Welcome to GAMELAND. Access Restricted.


    * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


    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.
    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrinestone Press
    Release dateDec 11, 2013
    ISBN9781501486562
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    Signs of Life: Jessie's Game (a GAMELAND novel), #1
    Author

    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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