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In a dystopian future where people choose to live in full immersion theme parks, the creations they’ve made revolt. Lt. Colonel George Stapleton is shot down in Afghanistan and wakes in a theme park at war. Desperate to reunite with his wife and daughter, he allies with a mixture of clones, humans, regenerated humans, A.I. holograms, and robots to overthrow their evil Corporate overlords and a devious creation named Lamppost Man. In the new spin-off series, the Leftenant is uploaded to a human body by the Lamppost Man and must navigate new Stranger Worlds with new allies and enemies.

A thrilling mix of West World meets Alice in Wonderland, Stranger World takes you on a nonstop adventure with characters you will never forget. It is a series the entire family can enjoy.

Jack Castle has been labeled the “Man of Adventures.”  He has worked at theme parks developing adventures, traveled the globe as a professional stuntman, worked as a police officer, Criminal Justice professor, and Response Team Commander in Alaska.  His suspense thrillers incorporate elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror and have been ranked in the Top 100 Best Selling books on Amazon. Meet Jack.


Prequel

A prequel to the first Stranger World. Creationeer Lisa Burton develops the A.I. Leftenant and soon realizes Stranger World’s creations are taking on lives of their own.

"I am so fired."

Book One

Lt. Colonel George Stapleton wakes up in Stranger World and searches for his daughter Maddie with the assistance of clones, robots, an A.I. hologram named "The Leftenant" and a friendly gargoyle butler who may or may not eat cats.

Book Two

Lt. Colonel George Stapleton awakens on a commercial airliner with new arrivals to Stranger World and leads them through parks with river-nymphs, zombie pirates, and a Tibetan train atop giant woolly mammoths in search of the hologram Leftenant and the Dauntless.

Book Three

Lt. Colonel George Stapleton’s search for Maddie is complicated by a submarine adventure, underwater leviathans, mischievous mermaids, and the diabolical Lamppost man.

Book Four

Corporate has won. Heroes have been lost. HMAS Dauntless, lies scattered in pieces across a desert. Lt. Colonel George Stapleton has been repurposed into a living painting and his kidnapped daughter is the Lamppost Man’s unwilling heir.

Book Five

Lt. Colonel George Stapleton awakens at home in Florida after a four-year slumber. His wife, daughter, and new neighbors (who all seem familiar) try to convince him that the fantastical, upside-down world that is known as Stranger World was a coma-induced dream.

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Commander Mac O’Bryant and her team explore a pyramid on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, and uncover ancient secrets that prefer to remain buried.

Anthropologist Kate Foster accepts a job at an isolated Arctic research facility only to find someone, or something, picking off her team.

Sheriff Hank  McCarthy moves to Havenport, Alaska looking for a quiet life but finds you can check in but never leave.

Becca Chaffee travels to the Badlands of South Dakota to “check out,” but finds there are worse things than being dead.

STRANGER WORLD

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Welcome aboard.

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Welcome to

ARE YOU READY TO BE THE NEXT BEST-SELLING AUTHOR?

Jack Castle has been teaching literary workshops at colleges nationwide and helping students get published for years. See his current class schedule here.

This book is everything I would tell my best friend about writing a book and getting published.”

Using his own exciting personal journey of getting published, he will guide you through his step-by-step process of writing, editing, formatting, and preparing your novel for agents and publishers, and how to contact them.

This was exactly what I needed to get myself started and write my first book!

-Darrin Geisinger Author, Zero-Gs Series

"Jack's publishing industry prowess helped me finally overcome every writer's greatest roadblock: getting started. I highly recommend Jack Castle's methods for writing your dream book and getting published! “

Emily Hudson, Owner, Write & Shine, LLC, www.writenshine.com


This special collection edition contains Stranger World, Stranger Realm, Stranger Tides, Stranger Desert, and Stranger Dream. The lines of imagination and reality have never been so blurred as in this amazing, yet sinister world of theme parks so creatively envisioned by Jack Castle

Welcome to Stranger World. In the future, people wanted more than just AI, they wanted to live their fantasies full time. Fast forward and the world has been taken over by full-immersion theme parks, but the attractions now run the show and humans are the entertainment. Available in print and ebook.

COMING SOON, AN EXCITING NEW SERIES

In a civilization built on fully-immersive theme parks, the attractions have taken over and humans are nearly extinct. The fearless Leftenant, a hologram perfect in every way -just ask her, is second in command of the HMAS Dauntless. In a final battle for humanity, her ship is shot down by Mad King Ludwig. She awakens a century later in a human body with no connection to her network or superior capacities. Now a wanted fugitive from the mad king, she is joined by Australian robot Outback Jack and six-legged scavenger Snafu. Together they must embark on a perilous journey across dangerous Stranger Worlds to reignite the flames of resistance or suffer a fate far worse than death, repurposement. “Oh, bollocks. What have I gotten myself into now?” Available for preorder. On sale August 2, 2024.

The Leftenant, a perfect hologram cruelly thrust into a human body, embarks on another perilous journey. Following the cryptic instructions of a mysterious device called the Thingamajig, she and robot adventure guide Outback Jack and French scavenger Snafu sail aboard the SoS Shipwreck to the floating island of Tournament World. There, in the shadow of Mad King Ludwig, chess-themed combatants from across the Stranger Worlds fight to the death in the annual gladiator games. Can the Leftenant solve the mystery and retrieve “the Rook" before the king’s Trenchcoats capture them?  Available for preorder. On sale November 2, 2024.

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The Resolute

The Resolute coming in February 2025.

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