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1) The God Game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
3) The glare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
©2024.
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, twelve-year-old Leon, a short and chubby gamer, is shocked when the cool kid invites him to test out a not-yet-released virtual reality video game. When a glitch puts them in real-life danger, it's up to Leon to battle a dragon and save himself and his friend"--Provided by publisher.
5) Dark matter
Author
Description
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an...
Author
Series
Sword art online volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In the year 2022, some six thousand gamers excitedly explore the new Sword Art Online, which manipulates users' brain waves to create a wholly realistic gaming experience, but soon learn it lacks a log-out button and to escape they must conquer all one hundred floors--or die trying.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review
"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...
9) Reamde
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
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.
Author
Series
Gamer Squad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When Bex and Charlie unwittingly make real all of the monsters Bex had captured through Monsters Unleashed, they must find and recapture them in real life.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photo queues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks...
Author
Series
Circle volume zero
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
The story of how Thomas Hunter first entered the Black Forest and forever changed history begins at a time when armies were gathered for a final battle in the valley of Migdon. Prequel to "Black" and sequel to "White."
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Shakar takes measure of our post-9/11 existential confusion in a technology-avid but sciencephobic, 'ever-complexifying world.' A radiantly imaginative social critic, Shakar is also a knowledgeable and intrepid explorer of metaphysical and neurological mysteries. With beguiling characters trapped in ludicrous and revelatory predicaments, this is a cosmic, incisively funny kaleidoscopic tale of loss, chaos, and yearning."--Booklist, Starred review...
Author
Series
Gamer Squad volume 2
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Bex and Charlie try Veratrum Games Corp's new augmented reality game, featuring aliens instead of monsters, they attract two aliens, kind Vera and evil Bob, to Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
By refusing to play Veratrum Games Corp's new zombie game, Bex and Charlie are among the few people immune to becoming zombies, themselves, and capable of stopping the corporation.
18) Trafik
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Quiver, a mostly-human astronaut, takes refuge from the monotony of harvesting minerals on remote asteroids by running through a virtual reality called the Lights, chasing visions of an elusive red-haired beauty. Her high-strung robot partner, Mic, pilots their Wobble and entertains himself by surfing the records of the obliterated planet Earth stored on his Swift Wheel for Al Pacino trivia, recipes for reconstituted sushi, and high fashion trends....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, wheelchair-bound resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home's residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past--or even create new ones."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When Paul Elias receives a terminal diagnosis, he returns to his hometown to seek a guardian for his granddaughter. But her imagination leads him on a journey into forgotten things and old secrets that leave him wondering about the nature of his illness, his granddaughter's future, and reality itself."--
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