Alex Kosh

Alex Kosh was born on April 15 1983. A blacksmith by trade, he’s spent the last 18 years working as a programmer, the last ten of which as a freelancer. Alex isn’t cut out for the office grind: he’d rather stay at home within the reach of his fridge, his culinary skills only outmatched by his hearty appetite.

Alex has been a keen athlete all his life. He’s an avid free runner accomplished at acrobatics, and he’s been known to have run a marathon in under four hours. By now, he’s started taking life a bit more seriously and switched to heavy weight lifting, such as bench pressing 375 lbs. He’s always been dreaming of completing an Iron Man triathlon but his swimming skills aren’t up to scratch and he’s too lazy to train. To compensate, he practices equilibristics and can already do one-arm handstand. Alex neither drinks nor smokes and he doesn’t cuss even when he stubs his toe on the bed post.

He likes playing board games, Dota and all kinds of MMORPGs. He also moonlights as a game script writer, planning to get his foot in the industry door.

Books


LitRPG Steampunk Virtual reality
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From book 1: "Arktania" is a virtual game with a steampunk style. It's a place where magic spells, enchanted artifacts, steam-powered machines, firearms and mechanical golems are a part of everyday life. Gamer Andrew... more

From book 1:

"Arktania" is a virtual game with a steampunk style. It's a place where magic spells, enchanted artifacts, steam-powered machines, firearms and mechanical golems are a part of everyday life.

Gamer Andrew Falk begins his journey in a small village on the border of Orcish territory. The locals are the keepers of many secrets, but their behavior is too realistic for characters in a game; so realistic, in fact, that Andrew starts to treat them as if they were real people. Maybe because of the way he plays, or maybe just thanks to good luck, he becomes one of a mysterious class of people known as "sliders,” and Elenia, the goddess of fate, sends him on an epic quest. But he quickly comes to understand that it's not just his stats as a gamer that are at stake here, but his real life. The virtual goddess turns out to be capable of affecting the real world in order to force Andrew to complete her assignments within the game.

Now Andrew's going to have to turn Arktania upside-down in his quest for five ancient swords. But the "Loner" curse means that he won't have anyone to rely on but himself.