Hot Wired Dodo (Wonderland Gambit Series/Jack L. Chalker, Bk 3) - Softcover

Chalker, Jack L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345386922 ISBN 13: 9780345386922

Publisher: Del Rey, 1997

Synopsis

The conclusion of the Wonderland Gambit series follows Cory Maddox as he tries to find Matthew Brand, the brilliant engineer who can release him from virtual reality and return him home, before Brand is destroyed by his enemies. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur science-fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated amateur magazine Mirage. A year later he founded Mirage Press, which grew into a major specialty publisher of nonfiction and reference books on science fiction and fantasy.

His first novel, A Jungle of Stars, was published in 1976, and he became a full-time novelist two years later with the major popular success of Midnight at the Well of Souls. Chalker is an active conservationist and enjoys traveling, consumer electronics, and computers. He is also a noted speaker on science fiction and fantasy at numerous colleges and universities. He is a passionate lover of steamboats, in particular ferryboats, and has ridden more t

From the Inside Flap:

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Reality wasn't what it used to be. Life after life, as man, woman, and child, Cory Maddox was trapped in an endless cycle of ever-changing realities, on the run from his ruthless companions *who were likewise trapped *and from the shadowy figures that seemed to exist outside the matrix.
The matrix that was becoming increasingly unstable.
Each new Alice-in-Wonderland world proved increasingly bizarre, and Cory wanted nothing more than to find the way home. Fragments of knowledge * a mysterious UFO crash, alien technology, glimpses of a computer that was controlling his fate *all pointed toward Matthew Brand, the virtual reality genius. But Brand had vanished long ago, into, or perhaps beyond, the borders of reality.
To break the cycle of cyber-reincarnation, Cory had to unlock the rules of the game. The deck was stacked against him, but Brand was his ace-in-the-hole. Somehow, somewhere, Cory ha

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345386922
• ISBN 13: 9780345386922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355