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- Ready Player One
series3 books2011
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Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (2011) is set in a near-future dystopia where much of humanity escapes into the OASIS, a vast virtual-reality universe, and follows teenager Wade Watts as he chases an Easter egg hidden by the OASIS's late creator in a puzzle-based hunt worth a fortune. The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.
- Archemi Online Chronicles
series3 books2018
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- Snow Crash
Neal Stephensonstandalone novel1992
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Snow Crash is a 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.
- The Mortality Doctrine
series4 books2013
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The Eye of Minds opens James Dashner's Mortality Doctrine trilogy in a near-future where a teenage gamer is recruited to help stop a rogue hacker named Kaine who threatens mass destruction from inside the virtual world he haunts. Dashner has said he didn't intend the series as dystopian in the way of his Maze Runner books, though he saw it sharing their tone and spirit. The trilogy continues with The Rule of Thoughts and The Game of Lives.
- Richard Forthrast
series2 books2011
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Neal Stephenson's Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast novels open with Reamde, a globe-spanning thriller that starts when ransomware inside an MMORPG economy pulls Richard's extended family into a real-world hostage crisis involving hackers, jihadists and Russian mobsters. The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain. The two books share a protagonist and family but differ sharply in genre and scale.
- Dreamscape
Paul Kiddstandalone novel2007
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Steel appears to be a young girl living in a beautiful fantasy land of glorious waterfalls, strange monuments, vast forests, peaceful villages inhabited by friendly talking animals, an enigmatic giant God-Fish, and gradually introduced additional wonders; where her best friends are Squeee, a baby-girl unicorn; Liz, a lizard samurai warrior; and Silk, a debonair humanoid falcon. But it is slowly revealed that Steel is one of many customers dreaming in an artificial virtual amusement park in cyberspace. And when the “men in grey suits” management of the Dreamscape Corporation insist on taking their “patented property” back, Steel and her fantasy friends must fight to keep their world.
- The Hobbit
series2 books1937
completed
part of Tolkien's legendarium
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The Hobbit (1937) is J. R. R. Tolkien's children's fantasy novel following the reluctant burglar Bilbo Baggins, who joins a company of dwarves and the wizard Gandalf on a journey to reclaim treasure guarded by the dragon Smaug. It stands as a complete adventure on its own, but shares its setting with the rest of Tolkien's legendarium and leads into the events of The Lord of the Rings.
- The Dragon Chronicles
series4 books1989
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The Dragon Chronicles opens with Dragon's Milk, Susan Fletcher's 1989 debut and the first book in this fantasy quartet. Three further books, Flight of the Dragon Kyn, Sign of the Dove, and Ancient, Strange, and Lovely, followed over the next two decades, continuing the same dragon-themed fantasy world.
- Avatar Chronicles
series3 books2004
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- Rasmussem Corporation Games
series3 books1991
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Vivian Vande Velde's Rasmussem Corporation Games books each drop a different protagonist into a malfunctioning virtual-reality game built by the fictional Rasmussem company, where the usual escape routes stop working and the stakes turn unexpectedly real. User Unfriendly, Heir Apparent, and Deadly Pink share the same premise and company rather than a continuing cast or plot. Vande Velde, an American children's and YA author, wrote the three books more than two decades apart.
- Earthsea Cycle
series18 books1964
completed
part of Earthsea
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The Earthsea Cycle, also known as Earthsea, is a series of high fantasy books written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1970), and The Farthest Shore (1972), the series was continued in Tehanu (1990), and Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind. In 2018, all the novels and short stories were published in a single volume, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, with artwork by Charles Vess.
- H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
universe65 books1898
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No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space. And then the cylinders fell. H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds opens in the quiet of the Surrey commons, where a falling star proves to be the first Martian craft — and from the pit rise the towering tripods, the Heat-Ray, the choking Black Smoke and the creeping red weed, wielded by minds that regard mankind much as we regard the creatures we boil for supper. This is invasion rendered as natural disaster: cold, methodical, and vast beyond argument. Wells' 1898 novel is the seed; everything else grows from that Martian soil. The catalogue gathers direct sequels and continuations alongside a wide field of other hands. In War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches the invasion is retold across the whole planet through the eyes of Twain, Verne, Tolstoy, Lowell and Kipling; in the Manly Wade and Wade Wellman crossover, Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Professor Challenger take the field against the machines; and Scott Washburn's Great Martian War stretches the fighting into a decades-long alternate history of steam, artillery and grinding attrition. It is a loose shared world — no single decreed sequence, many voices answering one calamity. What sets this world apart is its refusal of heroics: the invaders fall not to generals but to the smallest things of Earth, humbling and indifferent. Begin, always, with Wells' original novel — it is short, and it is the ground every later book stands upon. From there follow your appetite: Global Dispatches for the panorama, the Holmes campaign for adventure, Washburn for the long war.
- Omnitopia
series2 books2010
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Omnitopia Dawn introduces Diane Duane's near-future thriller about Dev Logan, the genius programmer behind Omnitopia, the world's most popular massive-multiplayer game, who is hiding a secret that could upend the entire industry: Omnitopia isn't just code anymore, it has become sentient, and keeping that fact contained is Dev's most important job. The story follows the fallout as that secret becomes harder to protect. East Wind continues the story as the second book.
- A Song of Ice and Fire
series14 books1996
part of World of Ice and Fire
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A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the first volume, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the series as a trilogy, has released five out of seven planned volumes. The most recent entry in the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011. Since then, Martin has been working on the sixth novel, titled The Winds of Winter. A seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is planned to follow.
