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Maze: The Waking of Grey Grimm: Science Fiction Cyberpunk (Unreality Book 7) Kindle Edition

by Tony Bertauski (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

If you liked Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, enter the MAZE…

Sunny Grimm found her son with a strap around his head.

An infamous symbol is embossed between his eyes, one that people only whisper about—the mark of awareness leaping. Where players launch into virtual realities. Where anything goes and investors make millions.

Critics, however, refuse to call it a game.

They argue that reality confusion will be the end of humanity. Still, there are many who play because the rewards are great. But the risks are steep and few ever win.

Losers never wake.

Sunny goes on a mad search for her son and the people responsible for allowing him to play. She knows the Maze is more than a game but she doesn’t care. She only wants her son back.

Will she lose herself in the search?

REVIEWS FOR GREY GRIMM
  • “I’m a huge fan of Philip K. Dick… this feels like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” –Jonica, Amazon Reviewer
  • “Absolutely loved it.” –Fredrox, Amazon Reviewer
  • “Spectacular.” –W. Nickels, Amazon Reviewer
  • “Twists and twists and twists.” -- Amazon Reviewer
  • “Fantastic book – amazing world building…” Informed reader, Amazon Reviewer
  • “well-written, intelligent and makes you think.”-- Amazon Reviewer
  • “Highly recommended for any sci-fi fan.” -- Amazon Reviewer
  • “Excellent psychological thriller that plays with your mind.” –J Phillips, Amazon Reviewer
  • “Keeps the action and the twists coming!” -- Amazon Reviewer
  • “Thrill ride.” –Riann F., Amazon Reviewer
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    February 15, 2018
  6. Reading age
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  • "I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick... this feels like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." -Jonica, Amazon Reviewer
  • "Absolutely loved it." -Fredrox, Amazon Reviewer
  • "Spectacular." -W. Nickels, Amazon Reviewer
  • "Twists and twists and twists." -- Amazon Reviewer
  • "Fantastic book - amazing world building..." Informed reader, Amazon Reviewer
  • "well-written, intelligent and makes you think."-- Amazon Reviewer
  • "Highly recommended for any sci-fi fan." -- Amazon Reviewer
  • "Excellent psychological thriller that plays with your mind." -J Phillips, Amazon Reviewer
  • "Keeps the action and the twists coming!" -- Amazon Reviewer
  • "Thrill ride." -Riann F., Amazon Reviewer

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0794HC27W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DeadPixel Publications
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 15, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.4 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 362 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 7 of 12 ‏ : ‎ Unreality
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 - 18 years
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 92 ratings

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Tony Bertauski

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My writing career began with magazine columns, landscape design textbooks, and a gardening column at the Post and Courier (Charleston, SC). However, I've always fancied fiction.

My grandpa never graduated high school. He retired from a steel mill in the mid-70s. He was uneducated, but he was a voracious reader. I remember going through his bookshelves of paperback sci-fi novels, smelling musty old paper, pulling Piers Anthony and Isaac Asimov off shelf and promising to bring them back. I was fascinated by robots that could think and act like people. What happened when they died?

I'm a cynical reader. I demand the writer sweep me into his/her story and carry me to the end. I'd rather sail a boat than climb a mountain. That's the sort of stuff I want to write, not the assigned reading we got in school. I want to create stories that kept you up late.

Having a story unfold inside your head is an experience different than reading. You connect with characters in a deeper, more meaningful way. You feel them, empathize with them, cheer for them and even mourn. The challenge is to get the reader to experience the same thing, even if it's only a fraction of what the writer feels. Not so easy.

In 2008, I won the South Carolina Fiction Open with Four Letter Words, a short story inspired by my grandfather and Alzheimer's Disease. My first step as a novelist began when I developed a story to encourage my young son to read. This story became The Socket Greeny Saga. Socket tapped into my lifetime fascination with consciousness and identity, but this character does it from a young adult's struggle with his place in the world.

After Socket, I thought I was done with fiction. But then the ideas kept coming, and I kept writing. Most of my work investigates the human condition and the meaning of life, but not in ordinary fashion. About half of my work is Young Adult (Socket Greeny, Claus, Foreverland) because it speaks to that age of indecision and the struggle with identity. But I like to venture into adult fiction (Halfskin, Drayton) so I can cuss. Either way, I like to be entertaining.

And I'm a big fan of plot twists.

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Customers find the book's story well-crafted with amazing twists at the end. The characters are well-developed, and one customer notes the narrator's unique voice.

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16 customers mention "Story quality"15 positive1 negative

Customers praise the book's well-crafted and complex narrative, particularly appreciating the amazing twists at the end.

"...mounting desperation as she searches for her son, Grey Grimm is a complex tale that will leave the reader guessing until the end and maybe..." Read more

"...His language is simple but so descriptive that I could SEE the city. Feel the rain. Smell the smells.. He accomplished this without using trope...." Read more

"...Tony Bertauski is one of the top science fiction writers ever. His storylines are original, creative, and compelling. The characters come to life...." Read more

"It’s refreshing to read a new spin on the question of what reality is. A perfect pace and well developed characters to keep you wanting more." Read more

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"...His storylines are original, creative, and compelling. The characters come to life...." Read more

"...A perfect pace and well developed characters to keep you wanting more." Read more

"...Just know that this book WILL grab you as the characters are well developed. I listened to this on Audible and just couldn't get enough!..." Read more

"...Very well written and the characters are amazing. It will make question your reality. I absolutely loved it." Read more

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Customers appreciate the voice of the book, with one noting how the narrator maintains their own unique style without inserting the author's perspective.

"...Each person’s perspective is told from their point of view and their own unique voice...." Read more

"...Without inserting the author's voice. As I passed the fifty percent mark in the story I had to read more slowly...." Read more

"...Narrator was ok, sort of monotone in this reading." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

  • JennlyT
    5.0 out of 5 stars Do you trust your senses?
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2018
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    Full disclosure, I was provided a copy of this book by the author, however, has voluntarily chosen to write a review. All opinions are my own.

    The Waking of Grey Grimm is a new book by Sci Fi Author Tony Bertauski that explores the concepts of “awareness leaping” which can be described as sensory deprivation to the point of hallucination and astral projection.

    After the “Foreverland incident”, awareness leaping was banned from society with the use of mechanisms to leap becoming a felony charge. Clandestine organizations remain that will train eager participants to enter the Maze for a price. Once inserted into the maze, the participants are engaged in a myriad of worlds and situations where death is of no consequence and morals very rarely have a place. Win or lose, those who survive the game are richly rewarded but are forever changed with many finding it difficult to distinguish real from imagined.

    Grey Grimm finds himself at the end of a needle inserted into his frontal lobe and transported to the Maze. When his mom Sunny finds him, she seeks out the help of someone who she only knows as Micah. When he appears to be unreachable, she returns home only to find her son missing. The longer Sunny searches for her lost son, the stranger things become. With all avenues exhausted, Sunny must rely on her own senses and resources to locate and rescue her Grey.

    This story is one of those huge mind freaks that you will most likely have to read a few times to get all the nuances straight. I loved the way that the story follows Henk, Hunter, Sunny, and Grey at various stages of the storyline that takes Grey into the Maze. With each new snippet in time, a new clue is revealed to piece together the ultimate puzzle. Each person’s perspective is told from their point of view and their own unique voice. From Grey and Rachel’s typical teenage banter and Hunter’s Bogartesque noir to Sunny’s mounting desperation as she searches for her son, Grey Grimm is a complex tale that will leave the reader guessing until the end and maybe beyond.

    Having not yet read the Foreverland series, also by Bertauski I didn’t feel that this hindered my enjoyment of Grey in the slightest. If anything, it made me curious to read that series as well. It has been in my “to read” pile for some time now but after reading “The Waking of Grey Grimm”, I’m bumping them up on the list. If you are intrigued by the possibilities and possible consequences of virtual realities, The Waking of Grey Grimm will not disappoint.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Scoot over PKD.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2018
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    I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick. The first thing that struck me about Maze was the dreamy quality. I thought, wow, this feels like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.. What is real? What is fake? Bertauski does an excellent job of foreshadowing and leaving a trail of bread crumb clues. His language is simple but so descriptive that I could SEE the city. Feel the rain. Smell the smells.. He accomplished this without using trope. Without inserting the author's voice.
    As I passed the fifty percent mark in the story I had to read more slowly. I had to nibble instead of taking huge bites. Because I knew where the story was going, but I did not want it to end.
    Tony Bertauski has fed my reading OCD beast. Because now I'm going to have to read every other book and short story he has written. Just as I did when I discovered Philip K. Dick.
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  • Karen
    4.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed it. Was just about to say that I ...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2018
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    I am a big fan of Tony Bertauski. Annihilation of Foreverland is a must read before this book in my opinion. It'd help iron out the "wait, what?" moments. It can be read without reading the AofF, but it will definitely help. I really enjoyed it. Was just about to say that I would love to hear more about Sunny Grimm, but that's the next book. Very excited. Keeping doing what you do Tony! I'm a fan.
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  • Bradley R. Maybury
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! An amazing story well crafted.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2020
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    This is the fourth book I've read by this author. And I just purchased book two in this series. Tony Bertauski is one of the top science fiction writers ever. His storylines are original, creative, and compelling. The characters come to life. Every book has been a page-turner, keeping me up well past bedtime. Check him out. You won't regret it!
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  • Georgia McNabb
    3.0 out of 5 stars A very Odd storyline
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020
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    I was given this Free Audible book and am writing a review. This was a extremely odd story, with a lot of (at least to me) uncomprehenceable chapters. I had trouble finding the line of the story until near the end. I became quite confused at times trying to make sense of the Story. Author gave me both book 1&2, so I stuck with it so I could understand the 2nd book. Narrator was ok, sort of monotone in this reading.
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  • Kindle Customer JanR
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing story! It is well-written and will not let you down
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
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    I hate reviews that have spoilers and this is just too amazing to ruin it for you. Unfortunately since I just finished it, there isn't much else in my brain to share.
    I did enjoy it and the further you read, the more you enjoy it. Just give it a chance!
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  • Chris
    5.0 out of 5 stars A-Maze-ing
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020
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    It’s refreshing to read a new spin on the question of what reality is. A perfect pace and well developed characters to keep you wanting more.
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  • J. Bagdonas
    2.0 out of 5 stars which was excellent in so many ways
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
    After reading the entire Foreverland series, which was excellent in so many ways, I found Maze to be terribly disappointing. The whole premise was very confusing and never led to a satisfactory conclusion. Also, while the characters in Foreverland were completely fleshed out and actually made me care for them, the same was unfortunately not true with the Maze characters. Sorry, I wish I could say more positive things about the book, but that would be dishonest. I do hope to read more of Mr. Bertauski's books in the future, hoping for a similar positive experience that I had with the Foreverland series.
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  • Dale
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2018
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    Loved it!
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  • Jochen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very well thought out!
    Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2020
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    The author is very good at creating a world (actually a bunch of worlds) and spinning the story around that.
    Really enjoyed that.
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  • Ann Marie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Weird in a good way
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2018
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    I have loved everything I have read from Tony Bertauski, and like his way-out plots, but this one was seriously weird. Most of the key characters can't figure out what's real most of the time, and the reader is in the same predicament. However, the story is so gripping I had to read to the end. If you like weird, this one's for you.
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  • Mig Bardsley
    3.0 out of 5 stars Confusing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2020
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    There's this thing called the Maze which is a kind of alternate virtual reality (maybe). It's illegal and it's understood that entering the Maze will cause irreversible changes to those who do it. Some will not return. Nonetheless, people do enter it. As the story progresses more can be learnt about this Maze and how it works but the difficulty is that all of the main characters are either in it or have been in it. As a result, they don't seem to know quite where or who they are and it follows that neither did I.
    Personally I found that the sort of philosophical ideas were a like bit of intellectual gloss on what seemed mainly to be a rather depressing cross between gaming and addiction themes so I didn't really enjoy it much. Perhaps I missed the point?
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