Shadeslinger
Corporate flameout Ned Altimer dreams of leaving his world behind. So when Earthblood Online splashes onto the VRMMO scene, he dives in and never looks back.
His advantages are twofold: exclusive access to the game’s three-day Head Start period, and a ridiculously handsome talking axe named Frank who has knowledge of the game’s deepest secrets…if the magnificent Frank ever feels like sharing them.
But those advantages also make Ned a target. Once the Head Start period ends, his fellow players will stop at nothing to rip that suave, violent-yet-disarmingly-charismatic axe right out of his hands.
In seventy-two hours, the greatest manhunt in gaming history is set to begin.
It’s gonna be a lot of fun.
Kyle Kirrin
Kyle Kirrin is a Baltimore-based writer and active SFWA member whose fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Fireside, PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. He won 1st place in the international Writers of the Future contest judged by Orson Scott Card, Tim Powers, and David Farland, and he was a longtime first reader at the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Apex Magazine.
The Ripple System
The Ripple System consists of five books, and the series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
