When Dreams Collide — Wm. Mark Simmons

GAME WARS

DREAMLAND. Be all that you can be--in a complex world of computer-generated dream games. Nothing is real, and the only frontier is your mind. But you can still die...

The psychotic Artificial Ego and Superego of Dreamland escape the computer, taking over human bodies--and planning nuclear war! Then the fantasy world spins out of control as goblins and zombies battle cyberpunks and sea gods...while game whiz Robert Ripley dives into the madness, a Catcher in the Awry. Unable even to control whether he's human or elf, Ripley must byte the bullet, free captive Gamers' minds, and lasso the lethal glitches before two demon datastreams dump death on 6 billion innocents.

If he fails, there'll be nobody left to press "reset" on the real Earth!