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41) 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"--
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's 1.7 million people "locked in"...including the President's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Brave heroes have banded together to take a perilous journey through the war-torn Overworld to defeat the Arch-Illager and his formidable army. But how did that army come to be? And just where did the Arch-Illager come from? The terrible truth behind the Arch-Illager is that he never asked for ultimate power. Known as Archie, this little Illager is bullied by his fellow Illagers and mistrusted by fearful Villagers. Archie only ever wanted a place...
45) 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...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.
48) Belle
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U," a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
50) 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.
51) Not lives: 07
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The second event battle turns out to be a game of musical chairs.
52) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the mysterious land of the End. On the outskirts of the great enderman city of Talos, they explore ancient ruins under the watchful gaze of the mighty ender dragon. They have everything they need in the end ship they call home, and know everything there is to know about their world -- or so they think until the strangers from another dimension arrive. The invaders are called...
55) Snow crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the future the only relief from the sea of logos is the computer-generated universe of virtual reality. Now a strange computer virus, called Snow Crash, is striking down hackers, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last hope.
56) 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.
57) Dark factory
Author
Publisher
Meerkat Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void. Dark Factory is a dance club: three floors of DJs, drinks, and customizable reality, everything you see and hear and feel. Ari Regon is the club's wild card floor manager, Max Caspar is a stubborn DIY artist, both chasing a vision of true reality. And rogue...
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Someone is sabotaging student projects and all signs point to Tom's friend Sam as the culprit, so Tom and his friends set out to clear her name.
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"En un futuro no tan lejano, un programador debe solucionar los errores que se producen en un mundo donde los humanos interactúan con entidades dotadas de inteligencia artificial, ignorando que no son reales, sino que forman parte de un juego virtual. Aunque quizás este metaverso sea algo más que un juego. ¿Qué pasa si te enamoras de un avatar que no existe en la realidad? ¿Qué pasa si rompes las reglas y le dices la verdad? Tras una larga...
60) Deep dive
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from the failure of his last project, video game developer Peter Banuk is working hard to ensure his next game doesn't meet the same fate. He desperately needs a win, not only to save his struggling company, but to justify the time he's spent away from his wife and daughters. So when Peter's tech-genius partner offers him the chance to beta-test a new state-of-the-art virtual reality headset, he jumps at it. But something goes wrong...
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