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Artem World

Dawn Chapman, Jez Cajiao, Kevin Sinclair & Lars Machmüller · 5 series · 8 novels · 2023

Artem is not a story so much as a place — a game-shaped world of stats and skills and real stakes, opened to several hands and entered through several doors. Pick a role and the world holds its rules around you; only your view of it changes. Four vantages divide the map. Pilots of Artem takes to the skies and the dark between; Hackers of Artem works the systems running underneath everything; City of Artem walks the streets, the markets, the politics; Artem Underworld goes where the law thins out and other codes take over. Dawn Chapman, Jez Cajiao, Kevin Sinclair, and Lars Machmüller each hold a corner of it. This is a compact shared world — a handful of books rather than a decade of shelves — built to be sampled from the angle that calls you, not marched through end to end. The pleasure here is GameLit's own: character progress you can actually feel, abilities that carry weight, danger that charges a price, all told brisk and forward-leaning with the mechanics worn on the outside. No numbered spine dictates a path. Drawn to dogfights and open sky, start with Pilots of Artem; drawn to heists, debts, and back-alley bargains, start with Artem Underworld; want the pulse of the place itself, City of Artem. Wherever you log in, it's the same world underfoot — you're just choosing which part of it looks back at you.

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Artem World at the centre, 5 branches around it.

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Grim and intense: 75% of this universe's placed works, the catalog's 46%.

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