Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking antics and smart mouth, those same qualities make Yared a star player of the underground augmented reality game, The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But when a change in the game rules prompts...
42) Counterattack
Author
Series
Robot wars (Sigmund Brouwer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In the first of two adventures set in 2040, fourteen-year-old, wheelchair-bound, virtual reality specialist, Tyce Sanders, finds himself in grave danger on his first trip to Earth, and in the second, Tyce must use all his skills to find a way to stop the slaughter of the governors of the World United Federation.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
David Grant has a singular talent-he can affect the course of his dreams.
Quite by chance, he discovers the existence of the Trans-Humanist Institute and their lucid dreaming lessons. He discovers that under the tutelage of Dr. Thotmoses he has more control over his dreams. However, his talent soon runs away with him and he visits dream places while awake. The waking world and the dreaming world collide. Grant ends up sedated in a hellish mental...
44) Otherworld
Author
Series
Otherworld (Jason Segel) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
"After the newest set of virtual reality gear hits the market, Simon can't wait to test it out. But, when his friend Katherine suddenly disappears after being seen with men from the same gaming company, Simon must decide how far in the game he's willing to go to save her"--
45) Snow crash
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Description
"Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse,...
46) Reamde
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
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.
47) Past crimes
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Welcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries - they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history. Criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, and at the forefront is Past Crimes: known by its millions of fans as the Disneyland of...
48) Otherearth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"After discovering terrifying information about Otherworld, the Company's high-tech VR gaming experience, Simon and his friends are on the run, searching for Simon's old roommate. He may just be the key to shutting the Company down, although if they don't find him in time, it may be too late for not only them, but for all of humanity"--
49) The unseen world
Author
Formats
Description
In her third novel, Moore (Heft) delivers a striking examination of family, memory, and technology. Leaping from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this is the story of young Ada Sibelius and her brilliant computer scientist father, David, who runs a lab at a prestigious college in Boston, working to develop a lifelike artificial intelligence program, ELIXIR. Ada is being raised nontraditionally-educated by David and his lab colleagues, treated as one...
50) Ambush
Author
Series
Robot wars (Sigmund Brouwer) volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"Tyce has to rescue his friend, Director Rawling McTigre, along with three other scientists who are trapped in a cave-in on Mars. He also has to uncover a devious plot that threatens to overtake the spaceship-just as they are nearing the end of their eight-month journey from Mars to Earth"--p. [4] of cover.
51) Side Life
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Smart, paranoid literary science fiction crossover for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. Dick, set in present-day Seattle Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting a beautiful Seattle mansion. There he discovers that the owner--who has been missing for a year--has built a secret basement lab. In the lab there are computers, wired caskets, and a thick, dog-eared notebook...
Author
Series
Trapped in Battle Royale volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Twelve-year-old Grey gets sucked into a hacked, virtual reality version of Fortnite Battle Royale along with one hundred other players. To get home, he must become one of the top five players before the season ends"--
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 2
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Video game whizzes Brett Wilder and Tom HOuston think the new virtual reality game Rodomonte's revenge is awesome, until it takes over their minds. Then the game playing becomes dangerously real, and one wrong move could be the last.
54) The Titanic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about the Titanic. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- Provided by publisher
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Readers of Cool Careers In Science will discover ten cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering careers, and dozens of subspecialties and will also learn why these careers are some of the most exciting, best paying, and fastest growing occupations in the world"--Provided by publisher.
57) Head On
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
58) Dragon Ops
Author
Series
Dragon Ops volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Twelve-year-old Ian is thrilled to beta test the mixed-reality version of his favorite game, but unless he, his sister, Lilli, and their cousin Derek defeat the dragon, it will be game over.
59) The God Game
Author
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.
60) Realm of ghosts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A virtual battle between two gamers could mean death IRL"--Provided by publisher.