Entertainment Weekly reveals the cover for Jason Segel and co-writer Kirsten Miller’s YA book, OTHERWORLD.

It was announced a couple of years ago that actor/author Jason Segel and his co-author Kirsten Miller were planning on writing a Young Adult book that was to be published in 2018. Well, yesterday, Entertainment Weekly revealed the cover for the first book of the series, titled Otherworld. Here’s the overview:

There are no screens. There are no controls. You don’t just see and hear it—you taste, smell, and touch it too. In this new reality, there are no laws to break or rules to obey. You can live your best life. Indulge every desire.
It’s a game so addictive you’ll never want it to end. Until you realize that you’re the one being played.
Welcome to Otherworld, where reality is dead. Step into the future. Leave your body behind.

The frightening future that Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller have imagined is not far away. Otherworld asks the question we’ll all soon be asking: if technology can deliver everything we want, how much are we willing to pay?

Though Jason Segel is well known for his roles in various comedy movies, and as Marshall Eriksen in the long-running series How I Met Your Mother, he already has a popular middle-grade book series under his name titled Nightmares! The series was also co-written by Miller.

Miller explains what inspired him to write this new book:

“When I was a teenager, I was one of the lucky few who got to experience a game very much like Otherworld before it was shut down,” Segel tells EW. “When I heard rumblings it was being reimagined for VR, I knew it was something Kirsten and I had to write about. Part mythic adventure, part sci-fi love story, entirely cautionary tale — we wanted to reach the new generation of potential players before this ‘game’ becomes a reality.”

For more on the book, check out the synopsis:

For fans of Black Mirror and HBO’s Westworld, and readers of James Dashner and Veronica Roth, Otherworld is the first book in New York Times bestselling authors Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller’s new YA sci-fi-thriller series. The future is now. And the future is terrifying.
The company says Otherworld is amazing–like nothing you’ve ever seen before. They say it’s addictive–that you’ll want to stay forever. They promise Otherworld will make all your dreams come true.
Simon thought Otherworld was a game. Turns out he knew nothing. Otherworld is the next phase of reality. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted.
And it’s about to change humanity forever.
Welcome to the. No one could have seen it coming.

Otherworld is now scheduled to arrive in stores November 7, 2017, and you can pre-order the book now.

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