If you don’t have enough money to pay for something you can try petitioning the CA which results in a duel: if you win you get what you petitioned for, if you lose you die in the game meaning you have to start over with nothing. Epic was developed as a game to amuse the colonists as they travelled through space but in the century since landing on New Earth Epic has become the way the Central Allegations run the economy as the money earned in the game is used to pay for real world resources like solar panels. But since conflict is a part of all human communities, they use the game Epic to solve conflict. New Earth was created when a group of people left Earth to colonize a new planet, one without violence which they felt was destroying the planet.

This book is about Erik, a 14 year old living on New Earth. This lead GoodReads to recommend a list of books with RPG components, which is how I found Epic. I read the book Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi for this reason. I recently read Ready Player One by Ernst Cline (when I should have been studying for my Master’s defence…) and while I thought this book had many, many problems it started me thirsting for books with a RPG component (role-playing game). Overall I would recommend this book to people that like to read fantasy and SciFi.Ī little bit of back story to explain how I found out about this book. Excellent book but there were some issues with it. Disclaimer:this book is the first in a trilogy where all book have been released.

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