
A BETTER PARADISE
Volume One (An Aftermath) (Adapted)
Dan Houser(Author)
Absurd Ventures (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 14. October 2025
Book
Hardback
448 pages
979-8-9929530-0-8 (ISBN)
Description
The first in a new series of novels from Dan Houser, writer of the Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto series.
Everyone tries to escape from paradise.
Mark Tyburn dreams of building the perfect video game. Kurt Fischer dreams of being a rich and successful executive. Daisy Tyburn dreams of having the ideal father. John Tyburn Smith dreams of fitting in. NigelDave just dreams of becoming human.
Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive video game project that goes very wrong. As the software they developed starts to produce unexpected and disturbing results, the project is shut down and abandoned. Until now.
Everyone tries to escape from paradise.
Mark Tyburn dreams of building the perfect video game. Kurt Fischer dreams of being a rich and successful executive. Daisy Tyburn dreams of having the ideal father. John Tyburn Smith dreams of fitting in. NigelDave just dreams of becoming human.
Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive video game project that goes very wrong. As the software they developed starts to produce unexpected and disturbing results, the project is shut down and abandoned. Until now.
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Edition
Adapted ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
Adapted edition
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9929530-0-8 (9798992953008)
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E-Book
10/2025
Simon + Schuster LLC
€14.83
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Person
Dan Houser was born in London and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. As a founder of Rockstar Games, he was lead writer on over 20 video games, including the Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and Bully franchises. A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath is his first novel.