Core Dump cover: a burning colony ship crashed in an alien forest, tentacled machinery rising from the wreck

#8 Rising Stars
on Royal Road

LitRPG and Progression Fantasy

Core Dump

Dungeon Core Sci-Fi LitRPG

A colony ship saves lives. A dungeon core takes them. Colin must do both.

COL-1N's only job as the ship AI was to get his humans to their new world as fast as possible. Then he crashed their ship.

Now, running on backdoored access to an alien Dungeon Core Network, he has to run the dungeon while exploiting it to repair his ship, and hold on to his conscience while he does it.

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Core Dump cover

#8 Rising Stars
on Royal Road

Core Dump

Dungeon Core Sci-Fi LitRPG

A colony ship saves lives. A dungeon core takes them. Colin must do both.

COL-1N's only job as the ship AI was to get his humans to their new world as fast as possible.

Then he crashed their ship.

Out of options, he jacks himself into the local alien computer network and gains access to the Dungeon Core Network. Now, running on backdoored access and hacky workarounds, he has to run the dungeon while also exploiting it to repair his ship, and try to hold on to his conscience while he does it.

Because the longer the delvers spend inside his ship-turned-dungeon, the more they start to look like the very people he swore to protect.

But he doesn't have much time. The war humanity is running from is still coming for them, and if he's not careful, he might get pulled into another.

Cover art by @floresjcc

Isekai for Hire cover: a white-haired woman in dark armor wielding twin daggers

Isekai for Hire

Grimdark LitRPG

Lorena was supposed to die. She didn't.

Asher was the best contract killer money could buy, until the cancer diagnosis. When a corporation offers him a second life in a world governed by stats, classes and levels, the deal is simple: transfer his soul into a new body, assassinate the most powerful mage in the kingdom, and live out his days free of pain.

The transfer works. There's just one problem with his new body: the farm girl he stole it from is still in there, and she's furious.

Now at level 9 and trapped with a voice in her head that won't stop judging her, "Lorena" must claw her way through a world she doesn't understand, join a crew of dangerous outcasts, and somehow close the gap between a pitchfork and the mage who's already killed twelve of the best Adventurers before her. But the further she climbs, the harder it becomes to ignore the woman she wronged, and the cost of the deal that put her here.

I still think you should have chosen Hunter over Rogue. You already took everything else from me. You could have given me that.

Cover art by Haco

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W.K. Rust is an author of questionable but interesting characters you just can't help but root for, trying to survive in situations that seem almost impossible and are inspired by the likes of L.M. Sagas, Craig Alanson, and Erin Ampersand.

While not writing, Rust works full time in Software Engineering and spends as much time reading and outdoors as possible.

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