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A Gamelit Scifi Adventure series with LitRPG elements that fans of Cyberpunk and Dreampunk will enjoy! THE DREAM CHASERS BOOK 3: MORIA VERSUS THE UNIVERSE The real world is on the verge of Armageddon. Millions remain trapped in the alternate reality of the Dreamnet. The rogue A.I. Ikelos is building a new universe, an ultimate reality of its own design. One that will keep humanity enslaved forever. Christopher 'Moria' Unus and his team of Dream Chasers are tasked to deliver the virus that will shut the Nightmare Machine down forever. But when Delta Team take to the deep sea to avoid Ikelos' Hacked minions in reality, the A.I. surprises them by bringing a real-world superpower's navy down on them, trapping Christopher and his friends in a submarine deep under Arctic ice, even while they battle in the Dreamnet. Meanwhile, genius inventor and dream game-designer Kavid Mezzapelli is assembling his own team of brilliant Dreamnet experts to defend the worlds they love. But the Director of D.R.E.A.M., Hannibal Heinz, continues to consolidate power into his own super agency, threatening the freedom of billions. As the final fight approaches, time is running out-for both universes.

Sixteen-year-old Christopher 'Moria' Unus lives in two realities: the humdrum existence of his tower-block home and high school career and the fantasy universe of the Dreamnet - a collection of worlds built within a vast organic quantum computer network, where much of the population now spends its collective time constructing their own versions of life, and where a battle for control over this vast new dream frontier is taking place.But when Christopher's best friend and Dreamnet hacktivist Sarah Furgol stumbles upon an experimental military code to power her own Dreamnet creations, they unleash an unthinkable terror, transforming the dream into a nightmare, one that takes the form of Christopher's estranged father.Faced with the reality of losing Sarah to this unstoppable artificial intelligence, Christopher must choose between joining the sworn enemies of Dreamnet freedom or watching everything they've fought for be destroyed by The Nightmare Machine.

"... a compelling and eminently likable cast of characters." -Authors Reading16-year-old albino Drake Stevenson lives a life alone in his world of video games and comic books, dreaming of one day saving a real princess. But fantasy becomes reality when his lawyer father suffers a heart attack, and the Stevensons are forced to move to flyover country in order to take up the family business: Stewardship of the oldest and largest cemetery in the state. There, among the weeping angels and willows of Centralia Cemetery, Drake meets Scarlet, an unusual girl who needs his help to find her killer. Complicated by his albinism, an unstable sister bent on high school domination at any cost, and a jock with a deadly secret, Drake sets out to find the shattering truth about a murder no one will speak of, to help a girl no one can see.

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