Project: Survival

Twenty college students. One closed beta. No way out.
When Ian Calloway receives an invitation to test Project Survival, an exclusive VR game from one of the most innovative companies in neural-interface gaming, it sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. Twenty players. One winner. Fifty thousand dollars.
It's supposed to be just a game.
But when Ian dies for the first time and finds himself in a gray waiting room where the silence is absolute and his headset has vanished from his head, he begins to suspect that something has gone catastrophically wrong. The pain is too real. The world is too vivid. And the other players who run out of lives aren't coming back.
Trapped inside a collapsing simulation with four lives left and no way to remove the hardware that is no longer there, Ian allies with Shelly, sharp, steady, and the only person he trusts in a world full of androids that wear human faces and players who will kill to reduce the competition. Together they fight toward the only exit they can find: the game's win condition, deep inside a machine-occupied city that is falling apart around them.
Project Survival is a sci-fi horror LitRPG novella about the difference between a game and reality, the friendships built in impossible circumstances, and the unbearable cost of being the one who makes it out.
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