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This is Not a Game: You Don't Get a Second Life - Walter Jon Williams


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This is Not a Game: You Don't Get a Second Life - Walter Jon Williams

 
Description: ISBN 184149657X / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Author: Walter Jon Williams / Paperback / 400 Pages / Book is published 2009-03-05 by Orbit

Newest Review: ... income with gold farming in MMORPGs. When Austin gets killed by a hired assassin and Charlie goes into hiding, Dagmar starts ... more

 ... to suspect things might be a little more complicated than they seem. Her new ARG will blend fiction and reality on a scale unknown before, and sometimes even the puppet masters don't know when one ends and the other begins. But, as one of the players asks, does it really matter? Williams' story is a blends near-future science-fiction, a conspiracy thriller, a peek at the slightly bizarre world of gamers and a rather topically relevant (and one can't help but think, slightly satirical) look at the crumbling financia...more

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Premium Review This is Not a Game: You Don't Get a Second Life - Walter Jon Williams: Gamers' Thrills (454 words)
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Dagmar is trapped in a hotel, with rioting Jakarta burning around her. When the conventional attempts to get her out fail, she decides to request help form the Group Mind: the on-line community of gamers who participate in Alternate Reality Games: games that happen in real life, not on the computer screen or over the Internet. Dagmar writes such games, working for Charlie, a phenomenally successful owner of a software company. Dagmar's and Charlie's friendship goes way back to college, and this is when they also met Austin, the venture capitalist and BJ, now relegated to a call centre and supplementing his income with gold farming in MMORPGs. When ...  Read the complete review

 

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