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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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Epic

Conor Kostick · 364 pages

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Accel World, Vol. 1: Kuroyukihime's Return

Reki Kawahara · 205 pages

Bullied junior high school student Haruyuki Arita has his life is turned on its head as he dives into "Brain Burst," a mysterious computer program, where he becomes a knight and has to protect the beautiful Kuroyukihime.

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Otherworld

Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller · 368 pages

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The Roar

Emma Clayton

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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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Armada

Ernest Cline · 400 pages

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there's nothing wrong with a li

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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"--

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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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Heir Apparent

Vivian Vande Velde · 315 pages

In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win. And

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Dream Park

Larry Niven, Steven Barnes · 434 pages

A gaming park where visitors come to have their fantasies fulfilled turns into a nightmare when a game turns to murder.

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Username: Regenerated

Joe Sugg · 192 pages

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Inferno

D. Rus · 204 pages

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The Trapped Mind Project

Michael Chatfield · 592 pages

Austin Zane leaves behind his CEO position with RB Corp to play Dave, a half-dwarf in the Virtual reality game Emerilia, trying to escape his life.What Dave doesn’t know is that Earth as he knows it, is really a virtual reality simulation and Emerilia is a world imbued with futuristic technologies to mimic early MMORPG’s.He just wanted peace and quiet, to build a house, do some fishing, to take so

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Level Zero

Jaron Lee Knuth · 286 pages

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Better than Life

Grant Naylor · 240 pages

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Earth's Gambit

Cosimo Yap · 409 pages

The Earth has changed. War is now fought in an alien virtual reality - the Game - where many of the players are anything but human. Now part of the Black Rose guild, Alan heads to the Academy to level up and get stronger. He hopes to make allies and learn skills to win the battles to come. But with everyone pursuing their own agendas, what can one gamer do in a universe he still doesn't fully und

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Project Daily Grind

Alexey Osadchuk · 437 pages

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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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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

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Point of Impact

Steve Perry · 368 pages

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The Secret of the Dark Forest

Vasily Mahanenko · 597 pages

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Reboot

Domino Finn · 468 pages

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.hack// Legend of the Twilight, Vol. 2

Tatsuya Hamazaki · 192 pages

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