Ryan Leslie – författare

“...a spine-tingling sf novel certain to wow readers who want to explore sentient AI, parallel universes, paranoia, and sustaining human consciousness for generations to come.” - Booklist For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKESEconomics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish—a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of reality moments before it claims your life—Clay is devastated. No amount of rationalization can explain Karla''s actions.Distraught, Clay joins a mission into the dark emptiness of space where answers are promised to reside. But when the ship begins to malfunction, Clay and the surviving crew members suspect there''s more to the mission than they''ve been told. They''ve been lied to, and they''re drifting into dead space.Clay''s memories of Karla haunt him even more than the ship''s chaos, and there''s something wrong with his memories: he has too many. The ship''s Al tells Clay his false memories are a normal side-effect of the hibernation, but to Clay, the memories suggest something far more insidious. He''s been on this ship before...

While landscaping his backyard, ever-conscientious Paul Prentice discovers an iron door buried in the soil. His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief, Jay Lightsey, pushes them to explore what''s beneath. When the door slams shut above them, Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters, all with a mysterious connection to a command-line, dungeon explorer computer game from the early ''80s called The Between.Paul and Jay find themselves filling roles in a story that seems to play out over and over again. But in this world, where their roles warp their minds, the biggest threat to survival may not be the Koŝmaro, risen from the Between''s depths to hunt them; the biggest danger may be each other."I found The Between dark, super creepy, and pushing the limits of my limited amounts of courage to explore-but I couldn''t stop myself from coming back for more because it''s propulsive, addictive, and scary good fun." - Sean Gibson, author of The Stuff About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True"...an incredibly intricate novel that skillfully blends aspects of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and cyberpunk." - Nicole Willson, author of Tidepool."While in the first third of this book, I mentioned that the atmosphere reminded me of one of my favorite horror novels, SL Grey''s The Mall. There''s a surreal, not-right quality to that book that touched off a nerve in me that I just adored....I don''t at all mean this as an insult, as that''s a damn fun book- and so is this one! ....It''s almost like a grown up, more gory and violent horror version of Heir Apparent." - Alexandra, Goodreads"This debut novel by author Ryan Leslie combines elements of science fiction and horror that at times reminded me of The Hike by Drew Magary and Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer, all while being something distinctly different." - Matt, Goodreads"It was a great mix of horror, sci-fi and adventure gaming!" - Stephanie, Goodreads