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Psychodrome
Series · 3 books · 1987-2020

Books in series

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#1

Psychodrome

1987

Psychodrome- An intergalactic scavenger hunt that sends its players across the stars in a game player for keeps... a game where the lines between reality and computer-generated fiction blur, and the only sure thing is that there is no sure thing. Now Arkardy O'Toole has entered Psychodrome. A gambler down on his luck, O'Toole hopes to pick up quick cash- and avoid some nasty characters that he's accidentally crossed. But his past has followed him into the game, and he and his teammates soon find out that if Psychodrome doesn't kill them, reality will...
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#2

The Shapechanger Scenario

1988

When humans arrived at Draconis 9, the only life on the planet was docile race of mammals. Humans do what they always do when they arrive on a new planet; they begin to kill things. It turns out the mammals were tasty. Little did the colonists know the animals were actually a race of telepathic shapechangers. Faced with being hunted for food, the shapechangers took the form of humans and began to learn how to face their new predator. The race was docile no longer.
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#3

Psychodrome III

The Invasion

2020

A psychotic killer is running for President of the United States … and he isn’t human. The ultimate shared reality experience, brought to you by the masters of illusion at Psychodrome, a fantasy entertainment network where the home audience use their psych-fidelity implants to link up and share consciousness with their favorite players. From erotic fantasies to deadly shared reality adventures, there is a scenario for every taste, but Psychodrome’s latest and most popular offering is much more than just a game. The Invasion pits the players against alien beings able to read minds and take any form they see. The ambimorphs are capable not only of shapechanging, but of assuming the memories and DNA of any creature they consume … including humans. With The Invasion, Psychodrome has pushed the boundaries of creating new levels of terror for their jaded audience. But what the audience doesn’t know is that the game is just a cover-up for an invasion that is frighteningly real. A shared reality adventure that took the players to a quarantined world has brought a deadly shapechanger back to Earth. Now loose among the population and using cybernetic implants absorbed from the victims it consumed, Chamelion has mutated and started reproducing. Using the implants to launch psychic assaults at people who tune in, Chamelion and his offspring have launched a lethal alien pandemic of terror, and Chamelion’s latest victim is a former talk-show host turned U.S. Senator … who is now running for the highest office in the land.

Author

Simon Hawke
Author · 48 books

aka J.D. Masters, Nicholas V. Yermakov He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the penname "J. D. Masters" and mystery novels.

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