zONE: The End and the Beginning

by Philip Blood

Overview

Professor Hamilton wakes up in a hospital, wondering if he has had an illegal brain smear. Since he is now missing parts of his memory he must go on a journey of discovery to find out why he is the most hunted man on the planet and the most wanted Pirate in the Zones. Our hero must enter a series of virtual reality worlds that are based on the great works of entertainment, art, and literature.

His adventures alternate between an Earth ruled by the iron fist of a totalitarian government, whose agents are nicknamed ‘Zombies’, and the Zones, where he travels through different virtual reality worlds like Deathworld, Wonderland, Hyperborea, Trekkie space, and many other famous stories. While in the Zones, Thorten is hunted by the faceless Dragoon squads of Zcerebral Incorporated. To survive he must find the secret Pirate stronghold, gain his own amazing Pirate Ship, and use it to set sail across the various Zones to discover the true nature of these strange worlds and how the Zones started. While doing this, he must face the dark powers that control everything and discover the truth about his life.

This is a story of adventure, mystery, romance, science fiction, and pirates, all set in the future and taking place inside many of the famous stories we all love and cherish. Come join ‘Z’ as he jumps down the rabbit hole, literally, with his trusty Steward Loki, and his Pirate companion, Mary Read.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045715348
Publisher:	Philip Blood
Publication date:	02/21/2014
Series:	zONE , #1
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	439,999
File size:	871 KB

About the Author

Philip Blood is a published author currently living in the Los Angeles suburbs. He is an avid scuba diver, a voracious reader of sci-fi and fantasy, a tabletop gamer (from way back), and a computer game junkie with MMOs being the top of his list.

Mr. Blood recently finished the third and final novel in his Zone series, this one called Brethren of the Ark and will soon publish book 9 in his urban fantasy series, The Archimage Wars: Warlok of Sheol. Book 1 through 8 are all available now with just one more to come to finish the series. Book 10 will be finished by the end of 2020. In addition, he works on creating Audio Plays for his novels, with five already available and more to come!

He also recently went back to his very first fantasy epic series, Cathexis, and did a deep re-write, fixing may of the writing issues of a young author (he wrote it 30 years ago) while leaving the story intact. All four books have been re-written and are now available in ebooks or print versions.

Finally, Mr. Blood has begun outlining a new, more traditional, fantasy epic, which he will start writing in 2021. The series is called, Kingdoms of Magic.