Running The Game: Humanity Found, #0

By P A Wilson

A journey through space to a new home. A plot that undermines their survival. One young officer determined to find the truth.

 

 

The conflict is clear — Jocaster must unravel the web of deception and prove that the game for promotion is not fixed. The stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity itself. The wrong outcomes will weaken the military force that keeps everyone safe in their search through space for a new home planet.

 

Jocaster teams up with a new contestant to follow the competitors through the brutal stages of the trial for promotion. Can they find the traitor before anarchy rises?

 

Running the Game is a prequel to the HUMANITY FOUND space opera series. Grab a copy today and chase the truth!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Perry Wilson Books
• Release date: Nov 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9781990509247

P A Wilson

Perry Wilson is a Canadian author based in Vancouver, BC who has big ideas and an itch to tell stories. Having spent some time on university, a career, and life in general, she returned to writing in 2008 and hasn't looked back since (well, maybe a little, but only while parallel parking). She is a member of the Vancouver Independent Writers Group, The Royal City Literary Arts Society and The Federation of BC Writers. Perry has self-published several novels. She writes the Madeline Journeys, a fantasy series about a high-powered lawyer who finds herself trapped in a magical world, the Quinn Larson Quests, which follows the adventures of a wizard named Quinn who must contend with volatile fae in the heart of Vancouver, and the Charity Deacon Investigations, a mystery thriller series about a private eye who tends to fall into serious trouble with her cases, and The Riverton Romances, a series based in a small town in Oregon, one of her favorite states. Her stand-alone novels are Breaking the Bonds, Closing the Circle, and The Dragon at The Edge of The Map. Visit her website http://pawilson.ca/ and sign up for the newsletter subscription to get news on upcoming releases and book recommendations. Check her out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPAWilson She tweets between writing and creating on-line courses. Follow her @perryawilson for odd comments and retweets.

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Running the game

RUNNING THE GAME

P.A. WILSON

PERRY WILSON BOOKS

CONTENTS

Before You Buy!

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Also by P.A. Wilson

About the Author

Acknowledgments

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1

L ieutenant Junior Grade Bryman.

Jocaster turned toward the loud and demanding voice. Lieutenant Xandry marched around the bulkhead to a stop inches from Jocaster’s face, his arms crossed behind him.

It could have been worse, he supposed. Xandry was a loudmouth and a jerk, but he wouldn’t stick around long. It was Jocaster’s first assignment on the game. All of the command positions on the starship were reserved for winners, he’d won last session, and now he was in charge of monitoring the action.

Sir, he said.

Xandry looked him from boots to cap and back again, clearly finding him lacking. You know the rules?

As if he could have forgotten in the three months since his victory. One winner. Gamers are disqualified if they kill another participant. The bottom half of the losing contestants get assigned to the maintenance crew.

No one wanted to lose. The maintenance crews should have been called the shit crews. Anything that involved, dirty, dangerous, or degrading got assigned to them, and, in space, there were plenty of jobs that qualified. The life span of a maintenance rat was about five years.

Xandry brought his left hand to the front. He held a sealed envelope. Whatever was inside must be important since paper was a luxury item on the