Questland

Product Description
"Questland is a thrill ride…Richly imagined, action-packed, maximum fun." \n—Charles Yu, New York Times bestselling author of Interior Chinatown\nYOU FIND YOURSELF IN A MAZE FULL OF TWISTY PASSAGES...\nLiterature professor Dr. Addie Cox is living a happy, if sheltered, life in her ivory tower when Harris Lang, the famously eccentric billionaire tech genius, offers her an unusual job. He wants her to guide a mercenary strike team sent to infiltrate his island retreat off the northwest coast of the United States. Addie is puzzled by her role on the mission until she understands what Lang has built: Insula Mirabilis, an isolated resort where tourists will one day pay big bucks for a convincing, high-tech-powered fantasy-world experience, complete with dragons, unicorns, and, yes, magic.\nUnfortunately, one of the island's employees has gone rogue and activated an invisible force shield that has cut off all outside communication. A Coast Guard cutter attempting to pass through the shield has been destroyed. Suspicion rests on Dominic Brand, the project’s head designer— and Addie Cox's ex-boyfriend. Lang has tasked Addie and the mercenary team with taking back control of the island at any cost.\nBut Addie is wrestling demons of her own—and not the fantastical kind. Now, she must navigate the deadly traps of Insula Mirabilis as well as her own past trauma. And no d20, however lucky, can help Addie make this saving throw.\n“Gamers rejoice! Carrie Vaughn has conjured up a fun and fast-paced story filled with elves, d20s, and Monty Python riffs.”\n—Monte Cook, ENnie Award-winning creator of the Numenera roleplaying game
Review
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Questland is a thrill ride that starts on page one and doesn't stop until the end. Richly imagined, action-packed, maximum fun.”\n—Charles Yu, New York Times best-selling author of Interior Chinatown\n“Gamers rejoice! Carrie Vaughn has conjured up a fun and fast-paced story filled with elves, d20s, and Monty Python riffs.”\n—Monte Cook, ENnie Award-Winning Creator of the Numenera Roleplaying Game\n"In a love letter to the fantasy and sf community, Vaughn geeks out in this Westworld-meets-The Lord of the Rings adventure...This guilty pleasure will interest readers who’ve come to love Vaughn’s amusing writing style and strong female protagonists."\n—Booklist\n"
Questland
lifts unrepentantly from nearly every fantasy trope out there but does so in a knowing way that shows why these tropes work so well. The structure of Vaughn’s story is familiar, yes, but simultaneously fresh and new.”\n—Locus Mag
About the Author
Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel
Bannerless, the
New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at .