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Chloe Gong · 496 pages
An instant New York Times bestseller! “Super-charged with electrifying action, mind-blowing twists, and timely commentary.” —Xiran Jay Zhao, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iron Widow From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the first book in the dystopian StrangeLoom trilogy, an “adrenaline-fueled mystery” (School Library Journal, starred review) in which humanity has mo
Unplugged
Donna Freitas · 427 pages
In the App World, Skye is a sixteen-year-old virtual girl without any glamorous downloads or fancy effects. She joined the App World for the promise of a better, virtual life, but she's looking forward to her seventeenth birthday, when she gets to unplug, see her mother and sister again, and decide which world she belongs in once and for all. Without warning, the border between worlds suddenly clo
City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams · 770 pages
The not so distant future where everybody has a second life in cyberspace. A growing sub-culture of cyberfolk and cyberpunks who are spending less and less time in the physical world, and ever increasing time 'plugged in'. But there is trouble brewing. Someone or something is trapping users 'online'. A rag-tag assortment of elite cybercitizens band together to stop the invasion. --- Volume 1 o
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
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 458 pages
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be t
Vicarious
Paula Stokes · 343 pages
"Winter Kim and her sister, Rose, survived growing up in a Korean orphanage and being trafficked into the United States. But they've escaped the past and started over in a new place where no one knows who they used to be. Now they work as digital stunt girls for Rose's ex-boyfriend, Gideon, engaging in dangerous and enticing activities while recording their neural impulses for his Vicarious Sensor
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 Dystopia Chronicles
Matthew Mather · 416 pages
Elusion
Claudia Gabel, Cheryl Klam · 382 pages
"Teens uncover the dangerous secrets of a virtual reality program that's taking the country by storm"--
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."
Sword Art Online Progressive, Vol. 1
Reki Kawahara · 177 pages
An astute teen, Yuuki Asuna spends most of her time studying for her high school entrance exams. One day, she borrows her brother's virtual reality game, 'Sword Art Online,' and finds herself trapped in its fantasy world. Soon, though, she learns the mechanics of the game, develops her swordplay technique and impresses a pro gamer who invites her to join the best players on the front lines. Is Asu
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.
Tea from an Empty Cup
Pat Cadigan · 254 pages
Policewoman Dore Konstantin investigates a case of people being murdered while visiting artificial reality. Normally, such killings are only imaginary and the visitor emerges safe and sound, but not this time. To find the killer, Konstantin must enter cyberspace herself. By the author of Fools.
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
The Barsoom Project
Larry Niven, Steven Barnes · 346 pages
Haunted by her past encounter in Dream Park, where the horrific special effects became real, Eviane returns to confront her nightmares but gets entangled in a vicious game where she is stalked by a killer.
.hack // AI Buster
Tatsuya Hamazaki · 236 pages
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Tom Sweterlitsch · 342 pages
A genre-mixing sci-fi, dystopian noir mystery, a disturbing tale of deceit, with tangled griefs of murder and conspiracy that haunt a virtual world...trippy and hard-boiled.
Stone Spring
Stephen Baxter · 499 pages
Duplicate of http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16628436W/Stone_spring
The Passage
Justin Cronin · 861 pages
"It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born." First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors