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World Seed: Game Start

World Seed Series, Book 1

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World Seed: Game Start

By: Justin Miller
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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The year is 2245, and the world has undergone explosive growth in multiple industries. The age of Virtual Reality came long ago, opening up new fields for people to enjoy and seek employment. There were even those that chose to sacrifice their physical bodies, becoming digital existences that lived within Internet communities.

But with the age of VR, everyone still dreamed of that next step, the next level of adventure. And after 100 years, it has finally arrived. The first consoles, known as Seeds, are mass distributed among the people, with such realism that they no longer qualified as a Virtual Reality, but as an Artificial Reality. But what happens when things become too real?

©2016 Justin Miller (P)2017 Tantor Adventure Science Fiction Fiction Virtual World Technology Computer Science Litrpg System

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narration is strong.
the story is week. it has potential but the character is boring, all he does is sit for hours and cultivate skill, that the character nevers uses. I will try the next but if there is no improvement, I won't carry on

Boring really, the whole book nothing happens

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If you enjoy D&d then this is for you. I presume the characters will develop with the series.

A little bit repetitive, but enjoyable nonetheless

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as the title this is a dam good story but If I was to make one comment it would say it was a little lazy by overly stating ranks and points etc
other than that it's a truly immersive experience

A dam good story

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loved the book, it had elements that made me fist pump the air.

Jeff Hays would have done a better job in performance but I got used to the Narrator soon enough.

This is 100% recommended to anyone who even remotely likes litrpg.

A little of everything

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As a childhood gamer, with an affinity for role playing games and a natural fascination with VR, now immersed in the battle of adulthood and early-stage family life, this was an engaging and thought -nspiring listen and I have decided to go for the second book in the series with 25% of the current book left to finish.

Great Nerd Read!!

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This book focuses on creating the world logic heavily, it’s certainly a set-up book but hoping this will bare fruit throughout the series. One for us nerds who love the logic of the magic build. Straight onto the next one 🤓

Good world building for series

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I'm saying this as someone who has repeatedly listened to the whole series. the narration is good, though I'd be lying if I said dual narration wouldn't improve it, but ive never had a negative thought of the voice acting, so its definitely not bad.

"edit" To save you from my dancing around spoilers while sucking this series so hard my teeth have fallen out, I'll say this now. The full series is 10/10 IMO. and I genuinely love each book as its own thing, as the story really does evolve in a genuinely natural and fluid way. if you took snippets of different sections of each book in the series, you'd find the differences to each snippet jarring and sporratic, but as a whole it's so well done, smooth and natural you barely notice it. great characters, great plot and great... well, everything.

Now for my indepth looks if youre interested.

This is my favorite go to series. cycled with the great "The primal hunter" and "He who fights with monsters" amongst others that have been the rare few I actually WANT to experience again after finishing what is currently out. I recommend this not just as a book, but as a series as a whole. it's a genuinely intriguing story that doesn't mess about with the basic rubbish most books do to drag it out for money. It has its story, the characters all feel like actual people, and the plot and worldbuilding is awesome. if I could reincarnate in any universe, it would be this one, no doubt and no questions asked.

The story is great. The twists, turns and subtle hints are awesome. plus, even as someone who hates Sci-fi, I love how its done in this series. A beautiful and well done blend of sci-fi and fantasy, a hard feat to accomplish to be honest, where you're as likely to be stabbed with a giant sword, as you are to be hit by an orbital laser or sniped by a laser rifle.

Think fantasy game if its set thousands of years after the standard fantasy game era. like skyrim meets mass effect, and elite dangerous. but with more depth and intrigue than any of the above.

If you've read or listened to this series before, relistening makes you realise that some of the little things are connected to later things, without being blatently obvious like most books I've read.

I'm not going to give examples, so no spoilers. I'll just say some subtle things are gently slipped in that make no obvious link to anything until you're re-reading it or it randomly clicks in your head, and you see a new part of the bigger picture. stuff that you wont even think about until you do. this occurs smoothly through the whole series. it feels more like an easter egg hunt in a great series.

The series itself is lined up nicely, with great growth and characters that I connect with. The world doesn't revolve around the main character. he's got to fight to keep up with the world.

There's an interesting use and growth of powers. a lack of limitations unlike most game systems have in books, I.e class technique restrictions etc. so a ranger can wield a buster sword if they wanted, or a swordsman could create a black hole inside someones asophogus from a mile away. A wood elf could be a master assassin that shoots people with a laser rifle from the next planet over, or the same wood elf could choose to be a mechanic on a starship the size of america. etc. All of these examples are hypothetical and not actually in the book.

I will give one example a charater has that I think is quite cool, but not spoilers. they have an electronic alteration to the brain to have an A.I helper inside their head that can show aiming guides. like if you have an arrow drawn, it will show the tragectory etc. in their vision like a HUD.

The world is open to all. all they have to do is put in the effort, and they can master anything. but it's more than possible for characters to make their own skills with no real fanfare, just by using their knowledge and experiences. creating new abilities from new ideas, studying manaflow to alter themselves or others internally or otherwise etc. magic isnt just "i have this skill." its a science in its own way. and the characters can make their own advantages.

I'll admit that i have questions, but most of them are probably answered somewhere in the series, but subtly enough that I didnt notice them. Others I've probably just forgot. and maybe some are only answered as a puzzle that I need to find the parts for in subtle hints. but none of those questions are important ones. they're more extracorricular questions, basic curiosity that has no impact on the story. I only mention it because it shows the story has replay value, and I have genuinely found many answers relistening to it.

A foundation for a great series.

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so this book is very one dimension, you are literally listening to a person narrate him self cultivating elements, asking how todo something then getting it, very little to no action, no bad guys,nothing lurking in the dark to keep you wandering or theorising , nothing to grasp you, no depth to any of the characters, any one of them could die and it'd just shrug it off, just stay away.

wheres the action?

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The first audio book that I didn't finish in a long time. So much superfluous text that could be rectified by an Editor. At one point, the M/C "pauses momentarily for a moment"

In need of a good Editor

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The concept behind this book is really good, unfortunately the implementation is poor. The story is entirely engrossed in the technical set up of the character with no narrative, and the narrator makes it sound as though it is read by a computerised voice. Not recommended.

Disappointed

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