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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Archemi Online Chronicles
series3 books2018
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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.
- Avatar Chronicles
series3 books2004
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- Самый странный нуб / The Weirdest Noob
series3 books2014
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- 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.
- 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.
