A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath

Dan Houser

RIGHTS AVAILABLE: Absurd Ventures Press will publish on October 14, 2025 across North America and the UK. English language sales are distributed by Simon & Schuster. All other rights controlled by The Bks Agency.

Dan Houser was co-founder of Rockstar Games. He was also the creative director and lead writer of the GRAND THEFT AUTO, RED DEAD REDEMPTION and BULLY video game series, among others.

A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath is the first story in an expansive new universe created and written by Dan Houser and is one of several original IP universes he is now developing under his new storytelling-driven entertainment company, Absurd Ventures.

Everyone tries to escape from paradise.

Mark Tyburn dreams of building the perfect video game. Kurt Fischer dreams of being a rich and successful executive. Daisy Tyburn dreams of having the ideal father. John Tyburn Smith dreams of fitting in. NigelDave just dreams of becoming human.

Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive video game project that goes very wrong. As the software they developed starts to produce unexpected and disturbing results, the project is shut down and abandoned. Until now.

  

As mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter.