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  • Cover of Ready Player One
    Ready Player OneSeries

    series · 3 books · 2011

    Dystopia, about quests.

    “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.”

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    Start with Ready Player One →

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  • Cover of Otherland
    OtherlandSeries

    series · 6 books · 1996

    “Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”

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    Start with City of Golden Shadow →

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  • Cover of The Mortality Doctrine
    The Mortality DoctrineSeries

    series · 4 books · 2013

    Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense in tone, about virtual reality and artificial intelligence, set in near future and virtual world.

    “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.”

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    Start with Gunner Skale →

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  • Cover of Snow Crash
    Snow CrashNovel

    Neal Stephenson · standalone novel · 1992

    About organized crime.

    “Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.”

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  • Cover of Avatar Chronicles
    Avatar ChroniclesSeries

    series · 3 books · 2004

    Science fiction, about virtual reality, set in near future and virtual world.

    Start with Epic →

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  • Cover of Sprawl Trilogy
    Sprawl TrilogySeries

    series · 10 books · 1981

    Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense and dark in tone, about virtual reality and artificial intelligence, set in near future and big city.

    “Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”

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    Start with Neuromancer →

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