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Mindwar

Andrew Klavan · 336 pages

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Catalyst

S.J. Kincaid · 432 pages

"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"-- Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test.

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The Reality Bug

D.J. MacHale · 379 pages

In his ongoing battle to save Earth and its parallel worlds from the demon Saint Dane, fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon travels to Veelox, a world whose inhabitants have abandoned their real lives in favor of virtual reality.

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The Eye of Minds

James Dashner · 315 pages

"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."

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Erebos

Ursula Poznanski, Judith Pattinson · 461 pages

'Enter. Or turn back. This is Erebos.'Nick is given a sinister but brilliant computer game called Erebos. The game is highly addictive but asks its players to carry out actions in the real world in order to keep playing online, actions which become more and more terrifyingly manipulative. As Nick loses friends and all sense of right and wrong in the real world, he gains power and advances further

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Otherworld

Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller · 368 pages

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Raptor

Paul Zindel · 170 pages

Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.

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The Lake of Souls

Darren Shan · 282 pages

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Reamde

Neal Stephenson · 1,050 pages

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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Point of Impact

Steve Perry · 368 pages

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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 384 pages

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 ca

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Doomed

Tracy Deebs · 480 pages

Pandora Walker unwittingly unleashes cyber Armageddon on her seventeenth birthday and must play a virtual reality game in order to save the world.

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Battling Boy

Paul Pope · 199 pages

A twelve-year-old demigod is sent to help the people of Arcopolis, a city infested with monsters. A demigod is sent to Earth to save the city of Acropolis from an infestation of monsters. He is just a boy on his own until he gets help from an unlikely source. Some of the drawings can be considered suggestive.

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Virtual Vandals

Diane Duane · 181 pages

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User Unfriendly

Vivian Vande Velde · 244 pages

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Space Demons

Gillian Rubinstein · 213 pages

Twelve-year-old Andrew, bored with life, becomes obsessed with a mysterious new computer game, which has the power to zap him and his friends into a dangerous world of menacing space warriors.

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Disclosure

Michael Crichton · 455 pages

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer. --- Also contained in: - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 5, 1994](ht

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The Leveller

Julia Durango · 258 pages

Earning money by dragging kids out of the virtual reality gaming world and returning them to their worried parents, bounty hunter Nixy faces the biggest challenge of her career when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own son.

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Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

Hajime Isayama · 200 pages

The megahit Attack on Titan anime is back! In this post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the world for years, killing everyone they see. For the past century, what's left of man has hidden in a

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Duplicity

N.K. Traver · 244 pages

When seventeen-year-old Brandon, a tattooed bad boy skilled in computer hacking, is sucked into a digital hell and replaced with a preppy Stepford-esque clone, his life and sanity rest on the shoulders of a classy girl he never thought he would fall for.

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Sword Art Online, Vol. 06: Phantom Bullet

Reki Kawahara · 294 pages

When he and Sinon the sniper girl enter the finals of the Bullet of Bullets tournament in the Gun Gale Online game, Kirito struggles to connect Death Gun events in the original SAO game, while Sinon is forced to face her own past.

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Gorgon

Greig Beck · 415 pages

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The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan · 384 pages

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction—Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he ha

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The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin · 408 pages

Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military prject sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of descruction captures th

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