AFK, Indefinitely (2014) by Huckleberry Hax

This was it. This was what I'd wanted all those years. I'd given up all hope and now it was actually happening. It was actually happening. How many times had I dreamed of having her in my arms like this, if only for one more time. And here she was. Right now.

STEP STRANSKY IS DEAD

And everyone knows now it was murder. And everyone knows now it was Definitely Thursday who murdered him. Can Thursday stay ahead of the law long enough to complete one last mission in the metaverse?

'AFK, Indefinitely' is the latest entry by Huckleberry Hax to the 'AFK' series. See also 'AFK' and 'AFK, Again'.



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Final edit completed on 'AFK, Indefinitely'

Just the damn Kindle version to do now.

The (hopefully) final version of 'AFK, Indefinitely' got uploaded to Lulu today and a fresh copy ordered.  I always work on the paperback copy first, because that means I get to hold a printed draft copy in my hands to make final edits on (as seen above); there's a transformation that happens some place in my brain when it's a thing I can put on my bookshelf rather than a file stored somewhere on my hard drive.  It becomes a book.

That just leaves the job of Kindle formatting it, which essentially involves nuking the book's formatting completely and starting all over.  Fun fun fun.  Once that's done, and uploaded to Amazon, I'll make the paperback public and publish a dedicated web page, where you'll also - as always - be able to read the book online for free.  Stay tuned, Thursday fans!

The second life of Second Life

Virtual Reality might be both the saviour and the slayer of our metaverse.

Depending on who you listen to, Second Life is either taking its last few gasps – hence the departure (voluntary or otherwise) of CEO Rod Humble – or is getting ready for new life to be breathed into it via a renewed interest in virtual reality (VR). The commercial release of the Oculus Rift headset is potentially less than a year away and VR is starting to become a hot topic once again in the industry. In the last couple of weeks alone there has been the news that Steam owners Valve are putting their weight behind the Rift and foresee VR becoming a consumer reality by 2015; meanwhile, Yahoo! have bought out and closed down virtual world Cloud Party and lit the fuse on rumours that a Yahoo! metaverse is in the pipeline.

The edge that SL is likely to have when the Rift launches is that it’s already compatible with the headset and could presumably be accessed through it just as soon as it’s out of the box. If you’re lucky enough to be unwrapping a Rift on Christmas morning 2014, therefore, but don’t have any compatible games to use it with, you’ll be able to plug it into a free SL account right there and then. Indeed, if the Rift does make it to the Christmas 2014 market then 25 December this year could just be the laggiest day in SL history. But don’t worry – I’m sure Linden has a plan for that...