Jozanny
04-27-2010, 09:49 AM
On the surface, Metagame is a silly romp through all the normal conceits in science fiction and fantasy that you can think of. Landstrom spoofs it all, genetic engineering, computer data processing, familiars, chemical dependency, fantasy role play, to name a few. The book centers on a futuristic virtual gamer named D_Light, who is in his mid-fifties, but looks immortal, and lives on an Earth now ruled by a vacuous mystical alien entity known as the Divine Authority of the Oversoul, who took over humanity after it fought punishing wars over homosexual marriage rights (I kid thee not) and nearly got wiped out by a rogue kid with a grudge who destroyed civilization with a supervirus, thus allowing the aliens to step in and bind all humanity to virtual gaming in every way conceivable, while humanity itself reverts to a meta-feudal family system that competes in the real life or death struggle of meta game quests.
D_Light gets sucked into a meta game after he kills the handmaiden of Mother Lyra, and the story itself and their adventures becomes engaging despite the massive pretense that Landstrom asks the reader to swallow. It is an apt parable of our media saturated digital age, where fantastic sensationalism is merged with spiritual hunger.
My rating: 3 out of 5 stars
http://samlandstrom.com/metagame.aspx
D_Light gets sucked into a meta game after he kills the handmaiden of Mother Lyra, and the story itself and their adventures becomes engaging despite the massive pretense that Landstrom asks the reader to swallow. It is an apt parable of our media saturated digital age, where fantastic sensationalism is merged with spiritual hunger.
My rating: 3 out of 5 stars
http://samlandstrom.com/metagame.aspx