First Fragment

The Kognition Cycle #1

by Brandon R. Chinn

In the fall of 2074, twelfth-year Lisa Perdita is content with doing little more than playing the Global Multiplayer Game Kognition and focusing on her schoolwork. She is also known as the player persona Njorun, a notorious PvP goddess in Kognition's realm of Midgard. While in a typical area, Njorun comes across a dying player simply named 'Sarah.' What happens next changes her world in drastic ways. Heavily influenced by Norse mythology and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen epic opera, Kognition's Midgard is an endlessly-evolving world of user created fields, sprawling dungeons, seamless player-versus-player combat, and fearsome monsters. As one of the 'future children' of a generation where the next evolution of the Internet is literally inside the heads of its users, can Lisa Perdita maneuver through the game and her own life in order to find the mysterious 'Sarah' without losing herself to obsession and angering the will of the corporation that runs it?

Kindle Edition

First published October 29, 2013

About the author

Brandon R. Chinn is a twenty-something that lives in the Pacific Northwest and spends most of his time writing, reading or playing video games. The Kognition Cycle: First Fragment + Second Stage and Kognition: Third Trial are available through Amazon, Createspace, Lulu, iBooks, and more.

Reviews

[Jesse Aubrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

If Kognition: First Fragment is a sign of things to come from Brandon R. Chinn, then the literary world has something to look forward to. Lisa Perdita is a beautifully fleshed out character that the reader can easily empathise with. The worlds of Kognition offer a seamless blend of different cultures and experiences without catering to any one group in particular.

Though the game focuses on an MMORPG, I honestly believe you do not have to be a fan of the genre to understand and enjoy the book. Chinn does an excellent job explaining things with his brilliant and obviously intelligent language. Kognition is probably some of the most artistic prose I've ever read in the science-fiction section of the literary world.

You should definitely pick it up!