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Gamers and others living in virtual worlds May 2020
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A song for a new day
by Sarah Pinsker
Public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.
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Armada
by Ernest Cline
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion.
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Before the storm
by Christie Golden
Struggling to recover from the devastating war with the demonic Burning Legion, Anduin Wrynn, king of Stormwind, and Sylvanas Windrunner, warchief of the Horde, make a terrible discovery that will test their new positions of power.
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Fall or, Dodge in hell
by Neal Stephenson
When a routine procedure gone wrong renders a gaming billionaire brain dead, his stunned family and friends cryopreserve and digitally transfer his consciousness into an immortal tech-driven existence.
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Oblivion
by Troy Denning
"A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe--based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2526. It has been more than a year since humanity first encountered the hostile military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant, and several weeks after the United Nations Space Command's devastating counterattack of Operation: SILENT STORM was deemed an overwhelming success. The UNSC has put its faith in the hands of the Spartans, led by the legendary Master Chief, John-117: enhanced super-soldiers raised and trained from childhood via a clandestine black ops project to be living weapons. But the Covenant--enraged and fearful of their enemy's unexpected strategies and prowess--is not taking its recent defeat lightly, and is now fully determined to eradicate humanity from existence, brutally overrunning the ill-fated planets of the Outer Colonies faster than retreats can be ordered. If the UNSC has any chance of stemming the tide of the war, the Master Chief and Blue Team must drop onto an empty, hellish world in order to capture a disabled Covenant frigate filled with valuable technology. It has all the makings of a trap, but the bait is far too tempting to ignore--and this tantalizing prize is being offered by a disgraced and vengeful Covenant fleetmaster, whose sole opportunity for redemption lies in extinguishing humanity's only hope of survival.
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Reamde
by Neal Stephenson
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
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Silence
by Mercedes Lackey
Ousted from her father's home by a new stepmother, teen Staci endures a life of virtually nonexistent technology in her alcoholic mother's home, where she befriends a diner waitress and a menagerie of controversy-embroiled gamers at the local bookstore.
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Space Invaders by Nona FernándezFormer childhood friends reflect on their shared experiences, including a mutual obsession with a video game, while wondering about the fate of one of their number, a government officer’s daughter who disappeared after leaving school.
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The chalk artist
by Allegra Goodman
A disarming chalk artist who thinks nothing of erasing his dazzling work and an idealistic teacher who believes that things are meant to last forge an unlikely romance marked by her powerful father's virtual reality company and a brilliant but unstable student who is obsessed with video games.
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The never game
by Jeffery Deaver
Searching for a missing woman in Silicon Valley, an expert tracker is pitted against dark elements in the billion-dollar gaming industry and a serial killer who stages scenes from his favorite game.
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The unfortunate decisions of Dahlia Moss
by Max Wirestone
"Meet Dahlia Moss, the reigning queen of unfortunate decision-making in the Saint Louis area. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own she's offered a job. A job that she's woefully under-qualified for. A job that will lead her to a murder, an MMORPG, and possibly a fella (or two?). Turns out unfortunate decisions abound, and she's just the girl to deal with them"--.
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For the win
by Cory Doctorow
In a future where poor children and teenagers work for corrupt bosses as gold farmers, finding valuable items inside massively-multiplayer online games, a small group of teenagers work to unionize and escape this near-slavery.
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For additional reading ideas, talk with your library staff! |
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