Brief Description: "The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game - with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game"-- Biographical Note: Matt Dinniman is a writer, artist, and musician (well, he's a bass player) from Gig Harbor, WA. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Review Quotes: "Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed...Princess Donut is my queen."--Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson "A dangerously addicting tale of chaos and mayhem. I'm thoroughly hooked!"--#1 New York Times bestselling author Callie Hart "Welcome to your newest obsession...the highly addictive, hilarious series continues to draw in new fans." - USA Today "This series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight."-- New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch "[A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut."-- The Wall Street Journal "This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever...Once you start, you won't put it down."--Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series " Dungeon Crawler Carl is the best start to a series I've read this year. I wish I'd tried it sooner."--Will Wight, author of the Cradle series "When it came time to pick a race, Dinniman and Dungeon Crawler Carl decided he would continue to appear as a human, and that's what this series has blossomed into, something profoundly and endearingly human."--Slate "If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it."--Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters " Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read."-- New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson "To describe the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and the first book in particular, one must blend the darkest, grittiest science fiction with the humour of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It mixes fun, whimsical absurdity, and serious, dark themes with dire consequences...it is so spectacularly good that I cannot recommend it highly enough."-- Grimdark Magazine "Dinniman's Douglas-Adams-but-playing-D&D romp was so much fun that I immediately went out and got the next two books...genuinely joyful."--LitHub.com Author: Dinniman, MattPublisher: Ace BooksBinding: HardcoverPub Date: 2024-08-27BISAC: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure|Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure|Fiction / LitRPG (Literary Role-Playing Game)Subjects: Video games|Prisons|Fantasy fiction|LitRPG (Fiction)Weight: 1.4 lbsISBN: 9780593820247ASIN: -SKU: SP-9780593820247
