Cole Perriman's Terminal Games

In 1994, Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin (bestselling authors of Mayan Interface) wrote Terminal Games under the pseudonym of Cole Perriman. It tells the terrifying story of an animated clown who haunts an online maze called Insomnimania, where he stages scenes from real-life murders. After her best friend is killed, Santa Barbara interior designer Marianne Hedison means to stop him. So does the streetwise LAPD detective Nolan Grobowski. Nolan and Marianne must trust each other and join forces. But who can anyone trust in a virtual world where people live out their weirdest fantasies anonymously?

Terminal Games sold well in its original Bantam edition. It got translated into German, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, and Romanian, was taught in courses about literature and contemporary culture at several leading universities, and was optioned by a major studio for a movie that didn't get off the ground. Here's the original book again, with its 90s-era technology intact. Decide for yourself how well Cole Perriman's Terminal Games prophesied today's infoworld.

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