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Empires of Eve Vol 1 (Vol 2 coming Nov/Dec). If you want a physical copy more are on the way (again, Nov/Dec).
Extremely well sourced, highly detailed book covering some of the most historically impactful events from a very neutral perspective. Gorgeous artwork.
It looks like the the cover for one of those bizarre amazon erotica books like "Pounded in the butt by my own butt" and "A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay" Source: I was in high school and these titles were hilarious at the time.
I'm reminded of a line of dialogue in a book I recently read (well, listened to). To expound on the plot summary on Amazon, the protagonist awakens to find that, while he was dead, the US became a theocratic state. Cryogenic preservation was ruled to be blasphemous, preserved people were declared to be dead, and all related assets were confiscated and sold off, including the preserved people.
The protagonist observes that it seems like it the proper action would have been to just bury the people, to which the other character replies, "Did theologues limit themselves to logical or consistent behavior in your time?"
I laughed so hard at that line - especially how it's delivered by the narrator - that I nearly had to pull my car off the road.
Only UK version right now is the Kindle version here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empires-EVE-History-Great-Online-ebook/dp/B01DONPR0M/
By the way, it's a fantastic book. It covers EVE empires from launch through till around 2009 and goes quite in-depth whilst still offering plenty of explanations for people unfamiliar with the game. Interviews, sov maps, fun tidbits and all!
EDIT: This is not the Mittani's failed book (looking at you, random amazon reviewer). This is a previous book which was kickstarted for $95,000 a while ago.
If there is a book called "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt" on Amazon, there is a novel for your kink; or you haven't written it yet.
While not a LitRPG I feel like the Bobiverse scratches the same itch very well.
It's about a guy who's consciousness is put into a robot and shot off into space. He has 3D printers that can create anything he can think of, including copies of himself. While not living "in a game" he still creates his own VR world that he shares with his copies and can control his perception of time by speeding up/slowing down his processor.
He explores, invents, creates and discovers tons of amazing stuff.
Apocalypse: Generic System by Macronomicon (me)
Kind of a poke at the old spear-chucker and punch-wizard. Most people seem to like it.
Have you read Empires of Eve?
It's an entire book about the rise and fall of Eve's Corporations and all the politics, espionage and backstabbing that accompanies their conflicts.
I seriously thought I was having deja vu. He did this before!
Anyways this post isn't strictly Amazon-related and is book-related, which breaks rule #5.
But it's motherfucking CHUCK TINGLE.
So I will make an exception. Because you don't mess with Mr. "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt" himself.
i would say favorite title is probably classic of POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY MY OWN BUTT because of modernist simplicity. favorite BOOK that i am most proud of however is TRANS WIZARD HARRIET PORBER AND THE BAD BOY PARASAUROLOPHUS i just think i did very good job with this one and it makes me proud of myself
Have you heard of We are Bob? It's a book that started as audiobook series. It very closely goes through the scenario you mention. One of the best sci-fi series imo.
Apocalypse: Generic System MC has to get the Squad together to survive the tutorial. An assassin, a swinger couple and a necromancer weeb walk into a bar.
Apocalypse: Generic System fits your broad specifications.
Written by me, so take this with a grain of salt.
Actual world, Mc hyperspecs magic, telekinesis + a little extra that makes it a thinky kind of character.
Decent sized group of unique characters attempt to get through the Impossible Tutorial...by cheating.
Generally well received.
It's available on Amazon Kindle which you can read on a smart phone or even your computer.
Give the Bobiverse series a try.
The premise: An engineer signs up for cryogenically freezing his brain when he dies on a whim. A bus runs him over. He wakes up hundreds of years in the future except it has been determined that these frozen brains are now the property of the state. They couldn't unfreeze him and bring him back to life, but they COULD use his brain as a template to be mapped into a computer system. He is now effectively an AI, given control over a Von Neuman probe that is to be sent out to colonize space.
There's lots of fun world building and an interesting look at the human condition. They're pretty clever with Bob too. For example, there's no such thing as Faster Than Light travel, so Bob just turns his clock speed down. In this way he experiences time slower than is actually happening and doesn't go insane on the long journey between planets. The books really start to pick up as he constructs other Bobs, each with their own slightly different personalities.
You might really enjoy a book series called “The Bobiverse”
It’s about a von Neumann probe with an Ai made of a human engineers (Bob) brain scan.
The science is pretty solid and general relativity and time dilation is an integral part of the plot.
https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ/ref=nodl_
I liked this a lot more than I expected. If you want to read a book with the stories that inspired Control, check out this: https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-qntm-ebook/dp/B08FHHQRM2 pretty good so far
For a perspective on how things might go for a cryonics patient in the future, read "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor. The audiobook narration is great!
Seriously though, try not to think about it. Everything ends. That's life. Live in the moment. You have the ability to choose how you want your life to go. Enjoy life while it lasts and appreciate how lucky you are to be self-aware as a human with opposable thumbs, Pokemon, and SpongeBob.
One thing that I've learned is that some books that you buy on Amazon will let you add the narration for really cheap if you buy the book. So instead of paying $30 for a book (or $15 a month for a credit), you can buy a kindle book on sale and 'add' the audio book.
I'm currently listening to a series called the Bobiverse thanks to this. The first book (We are Legion, We are Bob) was only $4 for the book and then another $2 to add the audiobook. If you like sci-fi/adventure books, I'd recommend it, it's dumb fun.
Also don't forget that your local library probably offers audiobooks on OverDrive.
I think you want /r/TrekBooks
The only Trek book that I've read and enjoyed enough to remember anything about it is A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson, fleshing out his DS9 character, Garak.
"Hey," Watney said over the radio, "I've got an idea."
"Of course you do," Lewis said. "What do you got?"
"I could find something sharp in here and poke a hole in the glove of my EVA suit. I could use the escaping air as a thruster and fly my way to you. The source of the thrust would be on my arm, so I'd be able to direct it pretty easily."
"How does he come up with this shit?" Martinez interjected.
"Hmm," Lewis said. "Could you get forty-two meters per second that way?"
"No idea."
"I can't see you having any control if you did that," Lewis said. "You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control."
"I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man."
"We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said.
"Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man."
- Andy Weir, '<em>The Martian</em>'
The last one is actually a short story called The Egg by Andy Weir. He's a really talented artist and you should check out his novel, The Martian, which is being adapted into a movie to be released in November.
You motivated me. Author is a pseudonym "Macronomicon"
But here the first book is on the Kindle store. Relatively short, and only 4 books published so far (in the last 2 years), but I'm glad you brought it up because now I want to reread them.
/r/TheGreatZarquan
This is an easy one.
The Bobiverse series from Dennis E. Taylor is very factorio like.
First Book is called "We are Legion (We are Bob)"
Amazon Description:
>!Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.
The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.!<
>!(https://www.amazon.de/Are-Legion-Bobiverse-Book-English-ebook/dp/B01LWAESYQ)!<
Recently been reading more of Qi=MC2, fun little sciency cultivation transmigration story. Currently on hiatus, but it's been a while since I last caught up so got a good number of chapters to read.
Listening to Macronomicon's Systems of the Apocalypse series (sorry, 'The Stitched Worlds' now) and it hasn't stopped impressing me yet. On book three already, gonna run out soon. Definitely in contention as one of my top fav sysapoc series to date.
I have a recommendation on a book for you to broaden your mind, people love people and that's perfectly fine, nothing wrong with it.
Here, read this book, it will help you see that love is real. ❤️
I would recommend stitched worlds by Macronomicon. It's a pretty good series! I guess there was some sort of lawsuit over the original series name so that's why it's calles apocalypse and stitched worlds.
I recommend looking into There is No Antimemetics Division. It’s an SCP related property about memory-eating entities loose on Earth.