Call of Duty meets Diablo in this fast-paced, action-packed LitRPG novel from the author of GALAXY’S EDGE.
Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where mega-corporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out.
But times are tough and the rent is due, and when players need extra dough, there’s always the Black, an illegal open source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free rein in the Wastehavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world.
And all too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a mad man intent on hacking the global economy for himself.
SODA POP SOLDIER by Nick Cole is available in paperback from Castalia Direct for $19.99. It is also available via Kindle and Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
Nick Cole fans and book collectors will be pleased to know that we have figured out how to provide a SIGNED AUTHOR EDITION of the Soda Pop Soldier paperback.
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The Signed Author Edition of Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole is available for $34.99.
I’m not a gamer and I wasn’t sure I’d like it, especially when it opened with a full-scale RPG battle. It turned out to be the best page-turner I’ve read in ages. It has compelling characters fighting desperate battles, clever extrapolation of gaming technology, and audacious action sequences. My favorite part is when the protagonist is fighting a high-stakes RPG battle online, while the airliner he’s on is simultaneously being attacked by fighter planes. It’s 1000x better than READY PLAYER ONE.
I read the series in reverse order. CTRL ALT REVOLT is great, but SODA POP SOLDIER is better.