PARANOIA

Attention, citizens! Throughout this Year 214 of The Computer, your friend The Computer has tracked the rapid growth of ebook publishing. Now The Computer's loyal servants in Housing Preservation and Development & Mind Control are proud to announce Ultraviolet Books, publisher of all-new official PARANOIA ebooks.

Licensed and approved by the PARANOIA owners, edited and laid out to professional standards, these DRM-free (not copy-protected), never-before-published novels are written by Famous Game Designers long associated with the roleplaying game; they feature new covers by The One True PARANOIA Artist, Jim Holloway; and they’re even for your security clearance.

The first two novels of the initial six-book license, in Kindle format, are now available for purchase and immediate download on Amazon:

• PARANOIA S1 Reality Optional by Gareth Hanrahan, designer of the 25th Anniversary rulebooks and writer of every PARANOIA RPG supplement published in the past several years. Conspiracy theorist Jerome-G, a worker in the Threat Obfuscation Department, creates fake dangers to cover up real ones. Now, somehow, his fictitious threats are turning real. Jerome-G finds a pair of experimental Augmented Reality goggles that reveal the truth behind everything -- and now he's more confused than ever.
• PARANOIA T1 Stay Alert by Allen Varney, longtime PARANOIA writer and designer of the 2004 edition. Troubleshooter Fletcher-R leads Team Rotisserie-459 on a mission to return a stolen helpbot. The bot isn't annoying or repetitious at all, no siree (“You look like you’re about to shoot your teammate! Would you like help?”). Embroiled in a gang war for control of the bot, Fletcher hopes to complete his mission before his teammates find out he's a traitor.

Two more PARANOIA books will follow later this month: Traitor Hangout by WJ MacGuffin (author of the PARANOIA RPG supplement Criminal Histories); and a promotional anthology, The Computer is Your Friend, designed to gently (well, more or less) orient new citizens of Alpha Complex.

Initially available for the Amazon Kindle family (.mobi format), the Ultraviolet Books line will soon have ePub versions suitable for the Nook, iPhone/iPad, and other e-readers. The books have no DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), so you can transport them easily among all your readers.

The Ultraviolet Books website tells more about the books and their authors, and will soon have free sample chapters and news. Sign up for the FREE (and spam-free) mailing list, and follow UVBooks on Twitter and Facebook.