The Tetris Effect

The author was inspired by the writing of David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami & Neil Gaiman. Readers who enjoy thought-provoking, dark fantasy would enjoy this novel.

Immortal gods, online gaming, and a reincarnating goldfish ... this gamer's life is about to level up.

A sequence of cryptic in-game messages and the haunting cry of a mysterious spirit animal mysteriously result in the up-all-night gamer, Lars Nilsson, being kicked from the top of the league in his latest high-stakes obsession, Atari Shock.

Flashback to Las Vegas, 1983, and as an Alamogordo landfill becomes a graveyard for unwanted Atari cartridges, an on-stage regression experiment tears open a passage to another dimension.

As the puzzle pieces of Lars' life fall into place, he's sent on a journey of cosmic self-discovery more challenging than any game, to a land where magical creatures command the purple skies and shadow animals patrol the streets like deadly sentinels.

But what do the challenges of this otherworld have to do with a reclusive gamer, and can Lars come to terms with the true origins of his identity before the land of the dead is lost to a powerful primordial force?