Book cover for Loading...The Machine Child by TT Madden

Loading...The Machine Child

2026 Released
130 Pages
1-2 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
Speculation PublicationsISBN 9798991855396

Abby, a transfemme videogame YouTuber, finds an anonymous package left at her door. Inside is a VHS tape that seems to call to something within her, and opens up a door to the 40 year old mystery of Polybius. The urban legend claims that an arcade cabinet allegedly caused madness and hallucinations in its players while it was installed over a single month in Portland in 1981. The package indicates that there may be even more to the story.

Something about it compels Abby on a journey across the country to discover the truth about the mysterious cabinet, the men in black watching over it, and to finish the story started in 1981.

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