(Highest Ranking: 117 in Science Fiction) In 2032, Virtual Reality gaming has become the most prominent form of entertainment, and a company known as Horizon has created the world's most popular game, the VRFPS (Virtual Reality First-Person Shooter) Team Deathmatch. It is the most-played online multiplayer game ever, with millions of people logged on and playing every day. Now, Horizon has launched the Contest of Calibers, a tournament for teams of players around the world to compete in, for a chance to win 10 million dollars for each of them. Samuel Eastman is an expert player who is randomly selected to be on a team with 4 other players, who all figure out a terrible secret about Team Deathmatch that could change everything. If you die in the game, you die in real life...

***WATTYS 2017 WINNER*** When the newly single, 40 year-old Jeff Dempsey suffers an agonizing humiliation at his high school reunion, he comes to realize he has accomplished almost nothing with his life. Armed with this new found insight, Jeff charges headlong into the bold new adventure of becoming the man he always wanted to be. With the help of Ashley, his enthusiastic life coach and guide in this new journey, Niko, his best friend and legendary womanizer, and Louie, the schlubby lord-of-the-idiots, Jeff commits to embracing all the daring life experiences that passed him by. Because 40 doesn't have to mean that your best days are behind you. 40 doesn't have to signify the countdown to the end. For Jeff Dempsey...40 is The New Twenty.