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BIGGER, BADDER, NERDIER
A new virtual-reality theme park goes haywire on a crowd of young victims, er, visitors in Alexander’s latest screamfest.
Having scored one of just 100 coveted preview tickets to a cutting-edge, kids-only venue dubbed ESCAPE, budding amusement park fan and designer Cody Baxter is looking forward to a life-changing experience. What he gets is more of a life-threatening one, as games and rides with names like Triassic Terror and Haunted Hillside not only pit him against a monster and then zombies—or sometimes a monster and zombies—as well as ruthless competing players, but seem tailored to play on individual personal terrors. And, in some never explained way, the VR quickly turns into real battles that inflict real wounds even as the real settings shift with sudden, dizzying unpredictability. Teaming up with loyal new friends Jayson Torn and Inga Andersdottir, the former described as being Japanese and White and the latter as Norwegian, Cody (who seems to default to White) struggles for survival, learning ultimately that ESCAPE was created by an evil genius with an ulterior motive who is convinced that he can teach children a salutary lesson. The plot’s no more logical in its twists and contrivances than the premise, but the author’s knack for spin
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BIGGER, BADDER, NERDIER
In Florence’s middle-grade fantasy original, a leafy girl’s crux is welltried in interpretation face exhaustive an presentiment, spreading Darkness.
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DEEP MAGIC is a bi-monthly electronic magazine that publishes clean short fiction in the fantasy and science fiction genres (epic, paranormal, steampunk, etc). Our issues are also filled with author interviews, art features, book reviews and tips for writers.
This month, we feature an exclusive interview with Rysa Walker on her first graphic novel based on her bestselling series time-travel series, The Chronos Files. We also share some sage advice on worldbuilding from USA Today bestselling author Shannon Mayer and share the writing journey of one of our authors from last month, Steve Yeager, who didn't start writing until after age 40. We also include short stories from fantasy legend Eldon Thompson ("Thorns"), John D Brown ("From the Clay of his Heart"), and a sci-fi story from Eleanor Wood ("Her Glimmering Facade"). We also feature stories this month by Stephen S Power ("Catskill Dragon"), Charity Tahmaseb's fairy tale twist ("Gretel and Hansel"), and Beth Powers ("Claimed By The Sea"). And along with an interview of our amazing cover artist, we'll also be publishing an extended sample of Josi Russell's excellent sci-fi novel ("C