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Author
Series
Spademan volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a year after Shovel Ready. Persephone is ensconced with her newborn upstate; Simon the Magician is struggling to keep control of Harrow's evangelical empire; and Spademan has accepted a seemingly routine job: to snuff out a no-good bed-hopper named Lesser. Lesser has been causing headaches all over the limnosphere, racking up enemies left and right. But Lesser comes back from the dream with a wild claim: that the terrorists have found a way to...
23) The leveller
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap"--
24) Square³
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When the great incursion occurred, the fabric of reality was ripped apart and giant monsters invaded the world. Two sisters, Susan and Katharine, were on opposite sides of the rip and ended up in separate realities. Years later, Katharine is able to send a signal to Susan--she needs her help.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Rydell is on his way back to San Francisco. A stint as a security man in a Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend phoning from Tokyo says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is.
26) The glare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.
Author
Series
This is not the Jess show volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When strange things start happening in Jess Flynn's hometown of Swickley, the high-school junior suspects reality isn't as it seems and seeks to uncover the truth about her family, her friends, and her town"--
30) The God Game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God; as the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life or die.
31) Virtually dead
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Staggering under the grief and financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky enters a virtual world called Second Life to participate in a new kind of group therapy, but once there, his persona, Chas Chesnokov, uncovers a series of killings and a financial scam that is netting a murderer millions of dollars.
32) Oh my goth
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When fiercely independent Jade Leigh, who assumes a goth appearance, gets into trouble again, her principal decides to teach her a lesson and puts her into an alternate universe where the whole world has gone goth and Jade is now popular.
Author
Series
Carnivia trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Venetian police captain Kat Tapo investigates an eerie ritualistic murder with ties to a Cold War cover-up and a malevolent Internet virus.
34) Fantasy in death
Author
Series
In Death series volume 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, was murdered as who did the murdering in this mystery revolving around a fantasy game of ultimate seduction and death.
35) Otherearth
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After discovering terrifying information about Otherworld, the Company's high-tech VR gaming experience, Simon and his friends are on the run, searching for Simon's old roommate. He may just be the key to shutting the Company down, although if they don't find him in time, it may be too late for not only them, but for all of humanity"--
36) Virtual sabotage
Author
Publisher
Calexia Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Virtual Sabotage introduces Kenna Ward, an envoy for a virtual reality company whose implants create a thrilling world that allows people to create daring scenarios in a safe environment. Most of the time, that is. When in the rare instance the human brain mistakes the terrifying event as real, it's up to Ward to enter the scenario and pull them back to reality. But when a key envoy goes rogue and people begin responding in odd and dangerous ways,...
37) OtherLife
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Simon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis know too much about the Company's dark secrets and the real-life consequences its technology is capable of. To save humanity and shut it down forever though, Simon must first survive the most harrowing trial yet--OtherLife--the next phase of gaming, and a complete reality reboot"--
38) More perfect
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Using the myth of Eurydice as a structure, this riveting science fiction novel is set in a near-future London where it has become popular for folks to have a small implant that allows one access to a more robust social media experience directly as an augmented reality. However, the British government has taken oversight of this access to an extreme, slowly tilting towards a dystopian overreach, all in the name of safety"--
39) Nucleation
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Helen Vectorvich just botched first contact. And she did it in both virtual reality and outer space.Only the most elite Far Reaches deep-space pilots get to run waldos: robots controlled from thousands of lightyears away via neural integration and quantum entanglement. Helen and her navigator were heading the construction of a wormhole gate that would connect Earth to the star, until a routine system check turned deadly. As nasty rumors swarm around...
40) Ready player one
Author
Series
Ready player novels volume 1
Publisher
Nova
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Estamos en el año 2044 y, como el resto de la humanidad, Wade Watts prefiere mil veces el videojuego de OASIS al cada vez más sombrío mundo real. Se asegura que esconde las diabólicas piezas de un rompecabezas cuya resolución conduce a una fortuna incalculable. Las claves del enigma están basadas en la cultura de finales del siglo XX y, durante años, millones de humanos han intentado dar con ellas, sin éxito.
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