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"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...
2) Vortex
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"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
3) Insignia
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagonal Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
6) Black water
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Just when 15-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler he is faced with an impossible choice.
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When a shadowy magazine hires investigative journalist Hollis Henry to do a story on a new art form that exists only in virtual reality, Hollis finds herself involved with a government operative named Brown, a Cuban-Chinese criminal named Tito, and a mysterious cargo container with CIA connections. At the heart of the intrigue is Bobby Chombo, a specialist in Global Positioning software whom Hollis is told to find.
9) Catalyst
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"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"--
11) Bubble world
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After sixteen-year-old Fresia learns--and tells her friends--that their perfect life on a luxurious tropical island is not real, she is banished from her virtual world to the "mainland," where people are ugly, school is hard, and families are dysfunctional.
12) La batalla final
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Michael has to figure out who his friends are in order to put Kaine back in the box, otherwise Kaine will achieve worldwide cyber domination.
13) The reality bug
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In his pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, Bobby finds himself on the planet Veelox, whose inhabitants have retired to their own dream worlds.
14) The mind virus
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The exhilarating conclusion to the Unplugged trilogy, which New York Times bestselling author Cass Morgan praised as chilling and addictive and Booklist and SLJ compared to FEED by M. T. Anderson. In the tradition of M. T. Anderson's Feed and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, The Mind Virus is the thrilling conclusion to the Unplugged series, which Kass Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of The 100, called chilling and addictive. Skylar Cruz has managed...
15) Cut off
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When something goes horribly wrong during the filming of a new virtual reality show, teenaged contestants are trapped in a simulation, questioning how much of the game is real.
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Since meeting Kuroyukihime, an avatar in a virtual world, Haruyuki has managed to grow up a bit, but in the Accelerated World, he must now subjugate a cursed piece of enhanced armament which is polluting the minds of the duel avatars that don it and only Silver Crow, the sole duel avatar with the power of flight, can apprehend the relic.
17) Lock in
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"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...
18) Revolución
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Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by the cyber-terrorist Kaine, who is a Tangent--a computer program that has become sentient. Kaine is trying to populate the Earth with human bodies that have Tangent minds. Since the government wants to pretend the world is safe, it's up to Michael and his friends to stop Kaine before artificial intelligence takes over the world.
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"Having finally reached the northern Kingdom of Helshper, Cayna's first task is to deliver the letter she's been entrusted with...to none other than her grandson, Caerick! After a surprise meeting with her ever-expanding family, Cayna is off to seek out a new Guardian Tower: the Crescent Moon Castle. But a party of bandits--led by a foe unlike any she's faced so far--insists on getting in her way"--
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In the future video games are played on the VirtNet, a virtual world which offers fully integrated mind and body immersion. Michael is a gamer and also a hacker--because it is more fun to break the game world's rules. When another hacker finds a way to hold people hostage inside the VirtNet, while their bodies slowly die in the real world, the government hires Michael to become their counter-hacker and figure out the hostage-taker's motives. However,...