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A BETTER PARADISE

Volume One (An Aftermath)

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Book 1 of A Better Paradise

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Pub Date Oct 14 2025 | Archive Date Mar 31 2026

Absurd Ventures Press | Absurd Ventures

General Fiction (Adult) | Sci Fi & Fantasy

Description

The first book release from Dan Houser, writer of the Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto series

Everyone tries to escape from paradise.

Mark Tyburn dreams of building the perfect video game. Kurt Fischer dreams of being a rich and successful executive. Daisy Tyburn dreams of having the ideal father. John Tyburn Smith dreams of fitting in. NigelDave just dreams of becoming human.

Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive video game project that goes very wrong. As the software they developed starts to produce unexpected and disturbing results, the project is shut down and abandoned. Until now.
The first book release from Dan Houser, writer of the Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto series

Everyone tries to escape from paradise.

Mark Tyburn dreams of building the perfect video game...
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Advance Praise

"A harrowing techno-futurist fever dream of justifiably paranoid creators being hunted down by their own creation. A gamedev's worst nightmare, imagined by one of the best writers ever to work in the gaming industry. “Frankenstein” meets “Free Guy”... if both were on a really bad acid trip." Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One

"A harrowing techno-futurist fever dream of justifiably paranoid creators being hunted down by their own creation. A gamedev's worst nightmare, imagined by one of the best writers ever to work in the...

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ISBN 9798992953008
PRICE $28.99 (USD)
PAGES 448

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