Best Game Ever: A Virtuella Novel

by R.R. Angell

In this fast-paced LGBTQ YA VR AR AI thriller, a group of gay, nonbinary, and straight college nerds on the Virtual Campus Challenge team are racing toward a deadline when Robby’s roommate dies of an apparent suicide after playing their favorite VR first-person flyer game, Flying Squirrels. Robby suspects foul play. With the help of his teammates, Robby exposes a threat to all VR gamers, and the SaikoVR AI game engine, Virtuella, fights back. Can Robby and his friends defeat Virtuella, save the world, and find love in the BEST GAME EVER?

Genres: Science Fiction, Queer

460 pages, Paperback

Published May 11, 2019

About the author

R R (Bob) Angell is an American author (pronouns he/him) and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in Asimov's, Interzone, and Compelling Science Fiction, among others, and many anthologies including “Compelling Science Fiction: The First Collection,” several Queer SciFi anthologies, and "Stress City.” His fast-paced LGBTQ YA VR AI science fiction thriller, Best Game Ever, published in May 2019 is available online in print and ebook, or through your favorite bookstore and library; just ask them if they don't have it yet.

Reviews

[R.R. Angell · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The Best Game Ever is the science fiction Hogwarts, full of adventure and wonder, that you've always wanted—complete with cyber-tech instead of magic, virtual reality gaming instead of quidditch, and a diverse, queer cast of exciting characters.”
- Don Sakers, author of Dance for the Ivory Madonna

"Angell has captured college life in all its horrifying, glorious complexity, set against a future that's frighteningly possible.”
- Cat Rambo, author of Beasts of Tabat