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Any other novels with video games as a central plotline?

All I got so far is Slum Online and pic related.

>> No.3145003

I'm writing one, not sure if it's good yet, I'll let you all know when I'm done.

>> No.3145260

Mogworld by Ben Crowshaw

>> No.3145360

i think the .hack// anime series had a few books.

>> No.3145429

try Jpod

>> No.3145451

Halting State by Charles Stross is mostly to do with augmented reality games

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>>3145003
I'll go ahead and help you out with that.

It isn't.

>> No.3145471

>>3145464

reading my first draft over, there's a shit ton of potential, I just need to polish it out of it. honestly, I think it's going to turn out really good. It's depressive, volatile, violent, black . . . it fucking glitters with hostility. I love it.

>> No.3145473

>>3145471

It is always important to be impressed with yourself.

>> No.3145524

Stephenson's REAMDE plays a lot of times in a WoW-like world and most of the story is about it (and terrorists for some weird reasons), still better than Ready Player One (a book solely about "hurrdurr anyone else remember the 80s, you know what that story needs? More DeLoreans!")

>> No.3145527

>>3145001
Here's a comprehensive list:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/58342/books-which-include-games

>> No.3145532

>>3145471
The book "Bird by Bird" might help you

>be reading a book about writing
>woman-writer
>calls all first drafts "shitty", never mentions "first draft" without "shitty"
>tells stories about coke-benders on the side
>tells you that perfectionism is the absolute worst thing when you write

I was impressed.

>> No.3145533

>>3145527
>http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/58342/books-which-include-games

That's a lot of board-games in there, well at least they got The Glass Bead Game

>> No.3145580

Cory Doctorow's For the Win is about gold farmers.

>> No.3145636

>>3145429
>>3145451
>>3145524
>>3145580
Thanks, looks promising.

>> No.3145644

The Beach by Alex Garland is about a recovering gamer and I think there's some sequences in it where he describes reality as a video game but it's been years since I read it.

>> No.3145982

Spads and Fokkers, by William Gibson

>> No.3146002

Ender's Game is sort of one. Ender's Shadow is the same story with a different perspective. Shadow of the Hegemon, to some degrees.

>> No.3146020

Sword Arts Online is a Japanese light novel (inb4weeeabooooo) about virtual reality MMORPG.

>> No.3146140

Welcome to the N.H.K. by Tatsuhiko Takimoto

>> No.3146843

Snow Crash. One of its several core ideas is essentially responsible for modern day MMO's and especially Second Life.

>> No.3149262

Sword Art Online.

>> No.3149294

This stuff has to be like the bottom of the literary barrel, Christ