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"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the Oasis. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines -- puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adie Klarpol, an artist working on a vast virtual reality project in Puget Sound, and Taimur Martin, a political prisoner in Beirut, retreat into the world of the imagination, each in their own white room.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 3
Language
English
Description
Michael struggles to separate friend from foe as the former gamer races to stop Kaine from conquering the cyberworld with the VirtNet gaming technology that gives gamers the ultimate mind-body adventure in this conclusion to the Mortality Doctrine series.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Language
English
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"Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out"--
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 2
Language
English
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"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--
6) Virtually me
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
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English
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"Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous--and addictive--than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest--a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize....
8) Reamde
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1044 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Forthrast, having dodged the draft in 1972 and become wealthy from smuggling marijuana across the Canadian border, develops a multi-million dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game after returning to the United States, and, after hackers create a virus that holds the electronic files of players ransom, he finds himself in a battle for survival as he travels around the world as a participant in a deadly war beyond the boundaries...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dewey Jenkins wants to have the top science project in class to avoid summer school and win a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, but after his friend Ferg accidentally breaks the console, they accidentally trigger the device, finding themselves transported inside a video game.
10) Fantasy in death
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
529 p. (large print) ; cm.
Language
English
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Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, eager to lose himself in an imaginary world where he plays the role of a sword-wielding warrior king.
11) Lo and behold
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
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English
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"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been"--
12) The glare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Trade Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.
13) Oh my goth
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
MTV Book/Pocket Books trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A note from Jade Leighton's journal
Years ago, a tragic accident robbed me of my mother and emotions. Because I find beauty in darkness and thrive outside social norms, I've been labeled a "freak" at school. I know my continued apathy hurts my loved ones, but I'm not about to change. Nothing will ever hurt me again.
Then I wake up in an alternate reality...and everything else has changed. Goth is in. I'm considered cool, and my archenemy-the...
14) Neuromancer
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English
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Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"--
Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels. At least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it is just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home policy. Disembodied and alarmed by the looming abyss of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they've never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. They'll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills, and danger or be stuck in game forever!
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...
Author
Series
Team Chu volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Competitive siblings Sadie and Clip Chu must set aside their differences and work together when they get stuck in a virtual reality laser tag game"--
19) For the win
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections.
20) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Language
English
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Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
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