Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 11, 2011

IngZ, Inc., an Austin-based mobile software development company, announced today at SXSW ScreenBurn 2011 it is developing Traveller AR: http://www.Traveller-AR.com, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing game (RPG) for the iPhone. The location-aware space fantasy game, available this summer, uses AR Augmented Reality to create an immersive experience with the real world ? instead of a computer or TV screen ? as the backdrop for the gaming universe.

Until now, MMORPGs have been limited to the PC. With Traveller AR, ingZ is pioneering the next wave of MMORPGs that will use the smartphone to get gamers out of their basements and encourage them to explore the world around them. Moving beyond the limitations of a computer monitor will allow mobile gamers to take augmented reality on the road and explore the vast Traveller universe that is being ?painted? with the entire sky as the palette.

Traveller AR is based on the award-winning pen-and-paper science-fiction role-playing game first developed in 1976. Since its inception, millions of game books have been sold and the rabid following has led to seven Traveller novels. With the exclusive mobile license from Far Future Enterprises ? the holder of the Traveller IP ? ingZ is creating the explorable ?known space? of the Traveller AR game based on 35 years of development. The game database contains more than 40,000 fully explorable star systems and 350,000 fixed space objects such as stars, planets and bases, creating one of the largest game spaces ever built on any platform.

Users? home cities will represent their own planets, where they can engage in battles, alliances, commerce and other activities. By physically traveling to other cities or using special transport powers they earn playing the game, they can explore new planets and star systems to create infinite opportunities for adventure.

?For too long, gamers wanting to experience the world of MMORPGs have been relegated to the PC, limiting them to only virtual exploration,? said ingZ CEO Tony Howlett. ?Traveller AR finally moves the MMO experience to the smartphone to take gamers outside the home into the real world.? Howlett continued, ?Unlike other smartphone games, Traveller AR has incredible depth for RPG fans, and the unique augmented reality experience adds to the feeling of engaged and interactive role-play.?

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Worchester, UK (PRWEB) October 17, 2006

English author, Christopher J Thompson has released The Light of The Dawn in conjunction with Lulu (http://www.lulu.com), the world?s fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.

Several years in development, The Light of the Dawn is an accessible science-fiction novel about an Earth in turmoil. It tells the story of how two ordinary men will determine the fate of both their own world and another. An adventure story and a cautionary tale, it is the first part of an intended trilogy that will thrill readers both young and old.

Christopher J Thompson wrote The Light of the Dawn partly to get himself noticed by the media. He came to Lulu because he would be able to reach a worldwide audience quickly but also because he wanted to be in control of the publishing process and found Lulu?s print-on-demand tools to be both fast and easy. The Light of the Dawn is available for purchase at http://www.lulu.com, in a marketplace filled with other unique and wonderful surprises

?Lulu allowed me to get my work out there the way that I want it and gives the reader the opportunity to read my work on-line as well as through the traditional paper copy,? said Mr Thompson, ?I have the flexibility to offer my work through multiple formats and I really like that.?

Link to Publication*: http://www.lulu.com/chris_thompson

ABOUT AUTHOR

Christopher J Thompson works as an Information Technology specialist for the United Kingdom police service. He has been bestowed with a number of awards for his non-professional writing in the UK and this is his first published novel. He is currently working on a number of other works including a screenplay and a sequel.

ABOUT LULU

Founded in 2002, Lulu is the world’s fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books. Please see http://www.lulu.com for more information.

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Grayson, GA (PRWEB) April 17, 2008

Street: Empathy, the debut novel by UK-based cyberpunk novelist Ryan A. Span, has been released by Gryphonwood Press. Span is the author of the popular online serial Street of Eyes. Empathy comprises the first year of the online serial, and includes a preview of year two.

In its recent review, Cyberpunkreview praises Span’s talent and says, “Much of what you would expect in cyberpunk literature is here: Hackers, cybernetic soldiers, polluted planet, grim future… along with a couple of (relatively) new elements like telepathy and nanotechnology thrown into the mix.” Span says of his debut novel, “If you like dark science-fiction, you’ll like it. If you like cyberpunk in particular, you’ve hit gold.”

Street: Empathy is Gryphonwood’s sixth release. Other titles include The Silver Serpent by David Debord, Seabird by Sherry Thompson, Dourado by David Wood, An Old-Fashioned Christmas by James Weidman, and the anthology Stories From the Inkslingers. Visit Gryphonwood’s website at http://www.gryphonwoodpress.com or the author’s site at http://www.streetofeyes.com.

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(PRWEB) February 22, 2006

A sci-fi poem, Clarissa by Hungarian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writer, Ilona Hegedus has been nominated for The James B. Baker Award in the Best Poem for 2005 category.

Ilona Hegedűs is a young Hungarian writer who lives in Budapest. She is a graduate with English and Librarian majors and she also completed a master’s program in European Studies and Global Affairs. Ilona writes science-fiction, fantasy and horror in English, mainly in poetry form. Her works have appeared in a number of ezines and printed magazines in the United States and in Britain, including Illumen, Expressions Newsletter, Between Kisses, AlienSkin Magazine, Skyline, KidVisions, Whispers of Wickedness, Beyond Centauri, Astropoetica and Book of Dark Wisdom magazine.

Her first book of genre poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, humor), Unearthly Companion has appeared in October 2005 and can be purchased at Lulu.com. The book has received glowing reviews and one of the poems in the book ‘Haunted House’ has been nominated for Muses Prize (in the Best Poem of Year 2005 category).

Another of her poems, Clarissa has just been nominated for The James B. Baker Award in the Best Poem for 2005 cathegory. This poem first appeared in the June 2005 issue of Between Kisses, then later in her book Unearthly Companion.

The James B. Baker Award was created by Sam’s Dot Publishing three years ago, in honor and in memory of one of the founders of Sam’s Dot Publishing. The award is officially called The James B. Baker Award For Genre Fiction but the four cathegories include not only Short Story, but also Poem, Article, and Art.

The nominees are selected at the end of each year, and each editor in Sam’s Dot Publishing selects the best short story, poem, and illustration from that year’s magazines which he or she edits. An independent judge is appointed to select the best short story, poem, article, and illustration from these, and this judge, a genre notable, remains anonymous until the announcement of the winners. The winners will be announced in the March issue of Expressions newsletter.

Ilona Hegedus is the first Hungarian writer who has a book of genre poetry published and she was also the first Hungarian writer who took up blogging in English, when she started Ilona’s World.

Later she also started a website entitled European Reader, in an effort to do something that nobody else has tried before. European Reader which she refers to as ‘a site for readers and writers in Europe and beyond’ includes news, reviews and interviews in English, and is aiming to provide the readers with news about the European literary scene, not only in Europe, but also in the United States, in Britain and in other parts of the world, as the Internet and the increasing use of English as a world language, at last, makes it possible.

Related links:

Ilona Hegedus’ website, at http://ilonahegedus.topcities.com

The nominated poem, Clarissa:

http://ilonahegedus.topcities.com/Clarissa.html

The purchase link to Unearthly Companion http://www.lulu.com/ilonah .

More information on the The James B. Baker Award http://samsdotpublishing.com/awards.htm

European Reader website: http://europeanreader.blogspot.com/ .

Media kits are available at request.

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(PRWEB) January 9, 2004

Jonathan David is a computer science major and is employed as a software engineer at a Holland, Michigan facility. The Enemy Mind, David’s second published novel, expounds the theory behind the legitimacy of time travel aside from the stereotypical assumption offered in conventional science-fiction Hollywood movies.

A description of the novel is as follows:

Crandall Cady is just an average family man who wants nothing more than to lead an average life. But a disk he discovers on a crowded sidewalk is about to change his average life forever. The contents appear to be a home video filmed four weeks from the day he discovers it, and the contents are of him.

The next four weeks are a countdown to zero, and to protect his family, Crandall has precious little time to determine if the recorded images are genuine or merely an elaborate hoax. As he begins to unravel the mystery behind the disk, he starts to question everything he has ever learned about fate and predictability. Crandall is thrust unwillingly into a game being played at his expense, and the result is a downward spiral into madness.

After reviewing The Enemy Mind, iUniverse was quoted as saying; “WOW! [Jonathan David’s] storytelling abilities leave me speechless. [David has] approached, tackled and conquered, in my opinion, a very difficult storyline but one that will have universal appeal to a wide audience”

For more information and titles available, please visit Jonathan David on the web at: http://www.jonathan-david.com

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Rossville, GA (PRWEB) June 17, 2006

Atrocious Adventure Publishing announces the release of “Machina Obscura,” the debut novel by first-time science-fiction author Carol E. Meacham.

Set on Earth in the year 2230, the novel focuses on a twenty-year-old NetRunner named Xyl and her enigmatic new partner Gracie as they become involved in unraveling a plot created by a corrupt Federal agent. Following a trail that might have been planted by Agent Searles himself, the two find themselves chasing clues and broken links through the virtual world of 2230 to discover two evolved artificial intelligences poised to monitor in real-time all criminal activities taking place in the virtual world. Realizing that her own friends and the world they have scraped out for themselves on the streets are at risk, Xyl must find a way to warn all of NetSpace of the plot before the two artificial intelligences initiate their monitoring program.

“Machina Obscura” (ISBN 0-9777733-0-2) is 220 pages in paperback format, published by Atrocious Adventure Publishing based in Rossville, Georgia, printed by CafePress and available to all major book outlets through Book Clearing House. For additional information or to obtain copies for review, please contact Atrocious Adventure Publishing.

Carol E. Meacham writes science-fiction short stories and novels focusing on artificial intelligence, interplanetary and interstellar space travel, utopian/dystopian futures and other futurist topics. Her short story anthology “The Curve of Shadow” is available on CafePress. Her next novel, “Aquaria,” the sequel to “Machina Obscura,” will be released in Winter 2007. She works for the United States Postal Service and lives in Rossville, GA.

Contact:

Carol E. Meacham

Atrocious Adventure Publishing

423-315-0141

Infosite: http://www.atrociousadventure.blogspot.com

Distributed nationally by Book Clearing House

http://www.bch.com

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Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) July 18, 2007

New open source movie project aims to create a full community of users who collaborate in the creation and execution of a short science-fiction film titled Jathia’s Wager. An experiment in collaborative filmmaking, the initial script is about a young man living in an isolated community of humans, who must make a life changing decision about his future and his species.

The script was written as an experiment by Solomon Rothman, a filmmaker who’s already released one full movie online for free. Rothman hopes the project will fully explore the concept of open, collaborative filmmaking and inspire people to create a true open-source filmmaking community. In order to encourage derivatives and actually get the project rolling, he wanted to start with a short script that had a psychological and serious undertone, and could be changed without a major time investment.

“I wanted people to get involved and let the collaborative process start happening long before the movie is shot” says Rothman. “I wanted creative individuals to be able to share every step in this journey. So I wrote the script in one sitting, edited it over the course of a few days and now I think it’s ready to be examined, picked apart, and re-interpreted by the world.”

Rothman will film his version of the movie and five others chosen by majority vote from the community (given that at least 5 people submit entries or work together to change the direction of the script). When it’s time to film, he’ll put the casting videos online and involve the community as much as possible. After the movies are done, all the source files will be uploaded online for people to re-edit and reuse. After all the mixes have been released, he’ll put 5 of the top versions together and release a DVD showing the variants; it will also be available as a free download online.

For more information or to get involved, please visit http://www.solomonrothman.com/solomons-corner/jathias-wager/ or solomonrothman.com

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