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1) Idoru
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English
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21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature . . . Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the "signature" an individual creates simply by going about the business of living....
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Charles Stross' novel Halting State is a brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller. The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
4) Reamde
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
Description
Staggering under the grief and financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky enters a virtual world called Second Life to participate in a new kind of group therapy, but once there, his persona, Chas C
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"A surrealist novel about four teenagers who find unconventional ways to escape standardized tests and their perilous world, and discover that the only escape from reality is to face it"--
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The story of how Thomas Hunter first entered the Black Forest and forever changed history begins at a time when armies were gathered for a final battle in the valley of Migdon. Prequel to "Black" and sequel to "White."
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English
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This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--the witch tries to explain that her motives are innocent; Gretel helps her brother Hansel explore a planet made of chocolate; and Hansel follows his wheelchair-bound friend Gretel into a virtual reality simulation--and the reader chooses which plot to pursue.
10) Secret identity
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Series
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew investigates when a middle school girl becomes the target of bullies in an online virtual world.
11) Identity theft
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Amateur detective Nancy Drew is once again involved in a case of internet stalking and bullying that makes her confuse her real life with that of the online avatar she has created in an internet reality game.
12) Ready player one
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Series
Ready player novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
Takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens,...
13) Girl Gone Viral
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Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
"The inventive and hauntingly timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom, reminiscent of The Social Network with a Ready Player One twist. For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She can build entire worlds from scratch -- shimmering lakes, Mars craters, any virtual experience her heart desires. But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note,...
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English
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An ordinary man is kidnapped, knocked unconscious--and awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew.
"Are you happy with your life? " Those are the words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met says, "Welcome back, my friend." In this world, Jason's life is not...
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Ready player novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film--
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