Scotto MooreScience Fiction · Fantasy
Wild Massive
Synopsis
Carissa works an elevator in the Building, a skyscraper with no top that stands at the center of the multiverse. Any floor might hold a desert oasis, a rain forest with cyanide in the water, or a whole world. She is happy with her elevator and wants nothing more.
Then a shapeshifter from an ambiguous world drops onto the roof of her car. The visitor is trying to stop a plot that would wipe out hundreds of floors, and Carissa is pulled into the trouble. She has to run, and the place she runs to is the Wild Massive, a network of theme parks inside the Building.
The parks mix technology, sorcery and elaborate media tie-ins into rides that should not be possible. Every guest is treated as a VIP, the coasters are frequently safe, and anyone without a valid day pass is removed from the premises by automated defense lasers, which means removed from life.
This is science fiction and fantasy played for comedy, a fast, chaotic adventure full of lies and secrets. The tone is irreverent, the pace is quick, and the heroes are small people standing against a powerful force.
How it reads
Prose complexity 7/10