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A [[Gamebook]] by Dave Morris, the creator of ''[[The Fabled Lands]]'', '''''Heart of Ice''''' is set in a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic 2300]] where the world has been ruined by climate change caused by the [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|insane supercomputer network]] GAIA. The player is a slightly extraordinary survivor in this world who receives a mysterious message from Gaia, revealing the existence of the Heart of Volent, [[Mineral MacGuffin|a meteorite]] that can grant the user [[A God Am I|ultimate power over their surroundings]]. A part of the now out of print ''[[Virtual Reality]]'' gamebook series, it has since been re-released. Also available for free at Dave's blog [http://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2010/02/free-e-gamebook.html here].
 
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** [[Just Before the End]]: Humanity really isn't expected to last another century, so the rich are spending their lives in revelry while the poor huddle in the slums, and everyone's waiting for the lights to go out. {{spoiler|If someone gets the Heart, it really will be the end.}} Some of the lines that the player can give, however, indicate a hope for the future and the salvation of mankind.
* [[A God Am I]]: Anyone who gets the Heart of Volent.
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Well, it's not AI itself that's the problem, but dumping a bunch of mutating computer viruses into Gaia did not end well, and Gaia is not only insane, but tends to take over any computer that links to her. {{spoiler|The Little Gaia prototypes are uninfected.}}
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Gargan sisters. By the time of the book, they're all dead except for XIII and XIV.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: The backstory was a three-hundred-year-long Class 1 that's slowly sliding to a Class 3a. {{spoiler|The Heart of Volent causes a Class X-4 if used.}}