The Imperium Game

The Imperium Game

Home Book reviews Convention List Submit your con Preliminary New Books list Endless Worlds Project Sell your house on the web Advertising rates Get paid to surf!! Small business help Affiliate programs Daily crossword Families and more Contact us here	Title: The Imperium Game Author: K.D. Wentworth Publisher: Del Rey Discovery Year: 1994 ISBN: 0345387295 Description: 242 pages; 18 cm.
	Role playing meets real life. In the future, entertainment conglomerates operate role-playing environments, where people spend weeks/months/years of their lives attempting to climb up the scoring ladder to become the biggest and best there is. In The Imperium Game, the simulation is that of Rome during the days of the Empire. While everyone there realizes that it's all just a game, having to live the life 24 hours a day tends to cause people to forget that it is, in fact, just a game. Problems start arising in this pseudo-Rome. The computer-generated gods are beginning to run amok, if they chose to run at all. The simulation itself seems to be falling apart -- long-time players are falling behind relative newcomers. But those problems seem trivial when the player who had become emperor is murdered -- literally. Unfortunately, the chief suspect of the murder is the chief troubleshooter, whose ex-wife happened to be married to the unfortunate victim. In order to prove his innocence, Arvid Kerickson has to sneak into the game from which he'd been expelled, and find the killers. But when Mars, the erstwhile god of war decides to burn down the city because there aren't any bloodsports, and when Proserpina, the goddess of the Underworld manifests herself, even though the program has no goddess Proserpina, things turn from bad to worse. Kerickson not only has to clear his own name, but he has to overcome a crime ring operating within the game. And, of course, rescue a fair maiden. But how can he, when the operators of the game are out to get him? Score: 90 out of 100. An excellent read that kept me on the edge of my seat, even when I read it the second time, a few months after the first reading. Fast paced action will leave you wondering "What can happen next?" and "How can he get out of this mess?". Highly recommended, if you can find it.
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