These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead. Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood.
Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god.
In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy. All around, death. Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things. He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart . This is one of our recommended reads.