Tony Bertauski

Maze

The Essence of Sunny Grimm (A Cyberpunk Thriller)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fans of Neuromancer, Inception, and the Matrix... the mind-bending conclusion of the Maze.A name was tattooed on his finger.Marcus woke in a cell. No memory of how he got there or what his name was. Just a tattoo. There were others like him. They called this place unreality. They told him this was where someone was hiding him.Clues lead him on a journey in search of who he is, who he was, and why someone did this to him. Each time he finds someone connected to a mysterious symbol, something inconceivable happens. Something even the people who live in unreality can't explain.Micah and the investors built the Maze, a massive alternate reality that feeds on the players who enter. But now someone is pursuing them. One by one, the investors begin to vanish.When clues are left behind, Micah suspects who it is that's taking them. It's someone from a game played long ago and a promise she made.

Produktdetails

• Maze Nr.3
• Verlag: Tony Bertauski
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781951432683
• ISBN-10: 1951432681
• Artikelnr.: 59462097

Autorenporträt

I grew up in the Midwest where the land is flat and the corn is tall. The winters are bleak and cold. I hated winters. I always wanted to write. But writing was hard. And I wasn't very disciplined. The cold had nothing to do with that, but it didn't help. That changed in grad school. After several attempts at a proposal, my major advisor was losing money on red ink and advised me to figure it out. Somehow, I did. After grad school, my wife and my two very little children moved to the South in Charleston, South Carolina where the winters are spring and the summers are a sauna (cliche but dead accurate). That's when I started teaching and writing articles for trade magazines. I eventually published two textbooks on landscape design. I then transitioned to writing a column for the Post and Courier. They were all great gigs, but they weren't fiction. That was a few years later. My daughter started reading before she could read, pretending she knew the words in books she propped on her lap. My son was a different story. In an attempt to change that, I began writing a story with him. We made up a character, gave him a name, and something to do. As with much of parenting, it did not go as planned. But the character got stuck in my head. He wanted out. A few years later, Socket Greeny was born. It was a science fiction trilogy that was gritty and thoughtful. That was 2005. I have been practicing Zen since I was 23 years old. A daily meditator, I wanted to instill something meaningful in my stories that appeals to a young adult crowd as well as adult. I hadn't planned to write fiction, didn't even know if I had anymore stories in me after Socket Greeny. Turns out I did.