[Free eBook REPEAT] When Dreams Collide by William Mark Simmons [Virtual Reality Sci-Fi Fantasy

When Dreams Collide by William Mark Simmons is the 2nd novel in his Dreamland Chronicles of virtual reality hybrid science fiction/fantasy novels, free again for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press’ Venture imprint.

This was originally published in 1992 by Warner, credited as by Wm. Mark Simmons. The 1st novel in this series was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award, and this is a special anniversary edition with slightly altered text and a retrospective foreword by the author.

The series is partially set in our modern world (circa the 1990s) and partially in a medieval fantasy-themed immersive virtual reality gaming environment where the players use magic to interact with their world, and this story features an attempt by the gaming world’s corrupted AI to wreak havoc on players in the real world.

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[Free eBook] The Dreamland Chronicles by William Mark Simmons [Virtual Reality Sci-Fantasy]

The Dreamland Chronicles by William Mark Simmons is an omnibus edition of the Dreamlands series of science fiction & fantasy hybrid virtual reality adventures, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press’ Venture Press imprint.

These were originally published in 1990, 1992, and 2002 by Warner’s Questar imprint and now-defunct sfnal specialty publisher Meisha Merlin, credited as by Wm. Mark Simmons. The series combines science fiction & fantasy elements in a high-tech future where people inhabit an immersive magic-wielding traditional fantasy-based virtual reality gaming world.

This omnibus edition contains all 3 novels, of which the 1st, In the Net of Dreams, was nominated for both the Locus and Compton Crook Awards. The stories were written to be self-contained adventures which explore various facets of the virtual world, which eventually comes under threat from various forces, as players begin to encounter alternate versions of their avatars under sinister circumstances and must unravel mysterious happenings.

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[Free eBook] The Woman of His Dreams by William Mark Simmons [Virtual Reality Sci-Fi Fantasy]

The Woman of His Dreams by William Mark Simmons is the 3rd novel in his The Dreamland Chronicles series of virtual reality hybrid science fiction/fantasy novels, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press’ Venture imprint.

This was originally published in 2002 by Meisha Merlin, appearing under his variant Wm. Mark Simmons pseudonym. The 1st novel in this series was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. The series is partially set in our modern world (circa the 1990s) and partially in a medieval fantasy-themed immersive virtual reality gaming environment where the players use magic to interact with their world. This story wraps up the series with a final adventure for the protagonist, who finds his consciousness swapped into the avatar body of a strange woman within an altered version of the game setting and hopping through parallels alternates of the created universe as he races against time before an external tragedy threatens to end the game.

Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.

[Free eBook] When Dreams Collide by William Mark Simmons [Virtual Reality Sci-Fi Fantasy

When Dreams Collide by William Mark Simmons is the 2nd novel in his Dreamland Chronicles of virtual reality hybrid science fiction/fantasy novels, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press’ Venture imprint.

This was originally published in 1992 by Warner. The 1st novel in this series was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award, and this is a special anniversary edition with slightly altered text and a retrospective foreword by the author. The series is partially set in our modern world (circa the 1990s) and partially in a medieval fantasy-themed immersive virtual reality gaming environment where the players use magic to interact with their world, and this story features an attempt by the gaming world’s corrupted AI to wreak havoc on players in the real world.

Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.