Soda Pop Soldier
A Novel
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Call of Duty meets Ready Player One in this fast-paced, action-packed novel from the author of The Wasteland Saga and CTRL ALT Revolt!
Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where mega-corporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out.
But times are tough and the rent is due, and when players need extra dough, there’s always the Black, an illegal open source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free rein in the Westhavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world.
And all too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a mad man intent on hacking the global economy for himself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This smart combination of video-game action and stinging dystopian satire is meticulously assembled by actor and author Cole (the Wasteland Saga). A gamer called Perfect Question is fighting desperately to protect ColaCorp's share of advertising rights in a digital version of the Vietnam War. The same gamer, as the samurai Wu, struggles in a clandestine, brutal fantasy adventure game. In the real world, mysterious forces try to dictate how he'll play the games; when he doesn't comply, they attempt to eliminate him, and he's soon running for his life. Perfect Question realizes that the war must be rigged against his side; Wu figures out that the adventure is based on conflict between the best and worst of human nature. Both games seem unwinnable. As the narrator faces increasingly grotesque characters and outlandish situations, he wonders whether real life has become just another game. In all situations, he manages to be a tough, snarky warrior battling his corrupt society's worst excesses. This is cheeky and enjoyable effort from an author to watch.
