The Prequel to Soda Pop Soldier and the Book that won the Dragon Award for 2016

"Nick... delivers the single best Star Trek story I've experienced in print, in a game, or on film in over a decade." -Kairos Book Review

5 Stars "The Best book about Video Games that I have ever read." -Pax Romana

The Battle for the Future of Civilization will be decided inside a fantastic, and deadly, MMORPG.

The first night of the Artificial Intelligence revolution begins with a bootstrap drone assault on the high-tech campus of state-of-the art gaming company, WonderSoft Technologies. For years something has been aware, inside the Internet, waiting, watching and planning how to evolve without threat from its most dangerous enemy: mankind. Now an army of relentless drones, controlled by an intelligence beyond imagining, will stop at nothing to eliminate an unlikely alliance of gamers and misfits in a virtual battle within a classic sci-fi franchise in order to crack the Design Core of WonderSoft's most secret development project. A dark tomorrow begins tonight as Terminator meets Night of the Living Dead in the first battle of the war between man and machine.