In the Outer Game, Death Is Forever

This Novella is a Techno-Thriller in the same genre as the "The Hunt for Red October" and "The Andromeda Strain." In the story, a rogue artificial intelligence (AI) reaches out from the virtual world of computer games to try and murder a wounded warrior. In the virtual world of computer games, the AI's and human warrior's avatars, die and are reborn again and again. When their conflict moves to the real world, there can be no rebirth. Either the AI or the human warrior must die forever so that the other can go on living.