Bøger af Gary Budgen

Greetings, player, and prepare yourselves for a journey unlike any other - a journey through the world of games. Enter a realm where a man falls in love with a playing card and a game of Scrabble has deadly consequences, a place where reality and virtual reality blur into one and the same. In these pages, the moves of a chess piece can signal the difference between life and death, rioting has become a huge national sport and the players lose themselves in games of their own devising. Featuring stories by Allen Ashley, Adam Craig, Charlie Fish, Diotima Sophia, Sandra Unerman, Jay Wilburn, Jason D Wittman and many more.

Matthias Jase, the loner who had fallen in with the Order, a strange occult secret society, is fascinated by the strange creatures he has discovered lurking in the edgelands of his small town. Driven towards a great sacrifice to gain their salvation he finds himself in a strange after world ruled by a terrible and beautiful goddess. In the town he has left behind strange forces begin to intrude. Days of rain are followed by an impenetrable fog. A mutilated dog doing lurks by the morgue. How will the secret Order respond as members fail to respond when sent to find out the truth? And as Detective Angela Morino investigates what has happened to Jase she discovers the strange obsessions that have led him on. As the supernatural intrusion worsens everyone is drawn into a final deadly confrontation where the stakes for the world could not be higher.

In the city of Genesia a chance encounter with Olympia, one of the clockwork dancers from the cabaret, leads Detective Evergreen Fox into a taking the job of finding a killer. Drawn into a world of deception and danger Fox faces both the fascists of the Renewal Society and their enemies in the underground movement known as the Masquerade. All the while he must contend with his growing fascination with Olympia and with the cyber augmentation in his head that has developed a taste for atrocity. As both a coup and a revolution threaten to tear the city apart Fox begins to understand that in a place that delights in masks it is impossible to know which side anyone is on.