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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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."
Bluescreen
Dan Wells · 335 pages
Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. One of those connections is a djinni--a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen--and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca i
Warcross
Marie Lu · 416 pages
"When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire"--
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.
For the Win
Cory Doctorow · 477 pages
Young adult science fiction set in the present or near future. The characters are "gold farmers" extracting virtual resources from online games and selling them to richer players. Their exploitation leads them to unionize, which leads to violence and trickery. In the virtual future, you must organize to survive At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrosse
Insignia
S.J. Kincaid · 446 pages
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Otherworld
Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller · 368 pages
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline · 464 pages
An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. Wit
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.
User Unfriendly
Vivian Vande Velde · 244 pages
Killobyte
Piers Anthony · 308 pages
A story about a handicapped cop who explores a virtual reality game only to be trapped inside by a hacker.
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.
Sword Art Online, Vol. 05: Phantom Bullet
Reki Kawahara · 202 pages
Logging into the new gun-based combat game, Gun Gale Online, Kirito investigates an in-game item, the Death Gun, rumored to be responsible for deaths in the real world.
The Ultimate Escape
Marc Cerashi · 181 pages
Z. Rex
Steve Cole
Jurassic Park meets virtual gaming in a blockbuster new thriller!You're 14 and find yourself on your own. Your father, who has developed the world's cutting edge research on virtual electronic game-playing, has been missing for weeks. And suddenly you're being hunted by men with guns, your picture is on the news, and, worst of all, something seemingly impossible is chasing you—a savage, man-eating
Username: Evie
Joe Sugg · 192 pages
Evie, a socially-isolated teenage girl who struggles to fit in at high school, spends her nights supporting her terminally-ill father, who is tirelessly working on a computer program. When her father dies, Evie is forced to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousin. One night, as she's going through her father's computer, Evie stumbles on a strange file that sucks her into a virtual world. She learns
Under the Never Sky
Veronica Rossi · 336 pages
Since she'd been on the outside, she'd survived an Aether storm, she'd had a knife held to her throat, and she'd seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland--known as The Death Shop--are slim. If the cannibals don't get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She's been taught that th
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.