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The latest additions to The Library's collection
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In the stacks
Speculative
Science Fiction
Can You Survive the Greater Depression? | Dr. Timothy Merritt | Science Fiction, Directed Fiction (N) (C) (F)
Step into a world gripped by a crisis larger than the Great Depression, where your global logistics company teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. Can you protect your employees and save your company without sacrificing your soul? Dive into Directed Fiction, a unique multi-path adventure novel that blurs the line between storytelling and reality. Each chapter is a prediction of future events, updated in real-time on Metaculus. It's not just a novel – it's a time-traveling journey into the stormy financial seas of the near future. Are you ready to bridge the gap between fiction and your impending reality?
Can You Survive the Russia-Ukraine War? | Dr. Timothy Merritt | Science Fiction, Directed Fiction (N) (C) (F)
Can your Disaster Relief Team survive the War in Ukraine? Your task is to lead your team to assist the refugees streaming across the Ukrainian border into Moldova. Make life-and-death decisions as you guide them into ever more perilous situations. You may not make it out alive. Discover how you would react to eight different scenarios with five different outcomes. Directed Fiction employs the Interactive Fiction format in a novel manner to plunge the reader into a developing real-world situation. This proof-of-concept eBook offers a powerful new foresight tool to explore the future. When you complete the task, you will be given a detailed explanation of the process of the technique that you can use for yourself to apply to any situation. Each chapter begins with a hypertext link to the Metaculus prediction market. You can measure the odds of your choices against the community’s projections. Try it, it’s addictive! This could change the way you perceive the future.Â
Article 17 | Von | Military/Aliens/Romance :) (N) (I) (F)
She was pretty, popular, snobby, and a planetary governor’s daughter. He was the son of shopkeepers, a social misfit, and a decorated hero on his way to the front. She thought she was there to dance. He had other ideas.
Fantasy
War-Torn | Victoria Jensen | Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
The story follows the life of Colton Derak, a young man who is kidnapped from his home on Earth and finds himself on the planet of Vellatha. Here, he is forced to become a warrior, and eventually, he must compete in the Games, where he will have the chance to be crowned with honor and receive riches and power. But Colton is not so willing to conform to the life he is expected to live, and must decide whether to follow another path instead.
Supernatural
Three-Question Demon Trap - by Dr. Timothy X Merritt |Â Dr. Timothy Merritt | Directed Fiction (NT) (C) (F)
Encounter Thomas Brooks, a relentless demon hunter, as he pursues a high-profile speaker from the World Economic Forum, plunging the reader into a realm where deception and malevolence intertwine. Use the techniques of Directed Fiction to navigate a web of intrigue, corporate machinations, and supernatural forces in this riveting tale. Will Brooks unravel the enigma before the malevolent force claims its next victim? The answers lie within the questions, and the truth may be the only weapon against the darkness.
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Buy Indie
The Highwayman Kennedy Thornwick | Lisa Kuznak | Fantasy (N)
Framed for murder and horse theft, Tommy Fellham is stuck in Magelock Penitentiary, rotting like a bad pickle in too small of a crock. Capital punishment was banned, how convenient—instead of getting hanged, he spends his time learning how to fight, steal, gamble, and drink. There isn't much else to do with himself until his best friend and teacher, the notorious highwayman Kennedy Thornwick, confides in Tommy his plans to escape.
When Tommy receives a visitor who promises fortune at the expense of a newly built bank, that settles it. He has to help Kennedy. But what Tommy doesn't account for is how much the prison has shaped him, and not only will he have to get used to magic outside the walls, but come to terms with who he has become… All while trying to avoid the mage hunters after the price on his head. Kennedy might have been too good of a teacher.
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From the Archive
Featuring a different, randomly selected book every week
Mori versus the Oni | ReddOscar | Fantasy, Historical Fantasy (Feudal Japan) (N) (I) (F)
The untimely death of Mori’s parents forces him to leave his Lord and become a ronin in order to care for his two young siblings, Kota and Ano. On the path to honour his deceased mother and father he is abducted to the spirit world. The spirits test him in a fight with an oni, victory the only path to freedom. His reward a duty too great for one man - to defeat the demon horde invading the mortal realm.
Those interactive stories sound great. They seem like they could be an excellent and innovative use of the Tools on here... 😎