The Alpha Protocol: A Sci-Fi LitRPG Adventure (Symphony Book 1)
The Alpha Protocol: A Sci-Fi LitRPG Adventure (Symphony Book 1)
- J. D. Mullenary Sr.
- Fiction
- Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
- 29/07/2025
Finding himself suddenly teleported to a new dimension, a former English teacher becomes the god of a world of his own making, in this portal fantasy.
Fresh off a break-up and now unemployed, veteran and former high school English teacher Walker Reed is ready to succumb to a grim and hopeless depression. But when an enigmatic stranger stops him in the street, he’s suddenly hurled into another dimension.
There, Walker gets to build his own world from scratch following the Alpha Protocol, which invites special individuals from across the universe to become “Creators”—generating everything from their own land masses and celestial bodies to a comprehensive, recorded religion.
With the help of his robotic assistant, Virgil—who happens to be a four-foot-tall squirrel—Walker sets about building out his geography, evolutionary systems, and creatures. But it’s not like playing in a sandbox, and he quickly realizes his creations can have world-ending consequences. Not to mention the creators are regularly pitted against one another in the Creator Wars . . .
As if all that weren’t bad enough, if Walker can’t complete the Alpha Protocol, he’ll be sent back to his previous reality, which has only gotten darker. As he unlocks new systems and paths, can he balance his desire to be a peaceful, benevolent, and ethical god? Or will everything devolve into chaos?
The first volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
J. D. Mullenary Sr., a.k.a AbnormalVAverage, is the author of the Symphony series, released initially on Royal Road. Raised on the temperate beaches of California, Mullenary earned his first degree at nineteen before deciding to grow up the hard way; he joined the military. Four years and one honorable discharge later, he returned to college to pursue additional degrees with a different perspective on life. Now living in Texas, Mullenary teaches English and eSports by day, writes by night, and does his best to dodge the occasional existential crisis. When he's not grading essays or drafting Systems, he's usually wrangling the stray dogs his wife rescues or raising his two sons to be better men than their father.
