Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world.

Many science fiction books have imagined characters being "trapped in virtual reality" or entering into virtual reality.
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Nova Terra: Greymane (The Titan, #2)
Walking in Two Worlds (Walking in Two Worlds #1)
Dominion (Awaken Online, #4)
The Land: Predators (Chaos Seeds, #7)
Evolution (Awaken Online, #3)
Hellion (Awaken Online, #5)
Regicide (The Completionist Chronicles, #2)
OtherLife (Last Reality, #3)
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Nebula Secret (Explorer Academy, #1)
88 Names
Legacy of the Fallen (Ascend Online, #2)
Unanimity (Spiral Worlds, #1)
The Simulation Hypothesis
Otherearth (Last Reality, #2)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Warcross (Warcross, #1)
Snow Crash
The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctrine, #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
Wildcard (Warcross, #2)
Heir Apparent (Rasmussem Corporation, #2)
City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
Otherworld (Last Reality, #1)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Insignia (Insignia, #1)
The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineBluescreen by Dan WellsAll Our Yesterdays by Cristin TerrillRuby Red by Kerstin GierFrost by M.P. Kozlowsky
Teen Science Fiction @PCPLD
44 books — 5 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
SFF: Best Themes
27 books — 18 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDaemon by Leinad ZerausNeuromancer by William GibsonUnanimity by Alexandra Almeida
Best VR and AR in Science Fiction
96 books — 37 voters
The Gamer, Season 1 by NOT A BOOKThe Gamer, Season 2 by NOT A BOOKThe Gamer, Season 3 by NOT A BOOKThe Gamer, Season 4 by Sangyoung SeongThe Legendary Mechanic by Qi Peijia
The LitLeague LitRPG Vault
17 books — 2 voters


Elizabeth Bear
The left their bodies holding down the same cafe chairs and waded through the first few tiers of advertisements-get-rich-quick schemes, Bollywood starlets, and pop star scandal sheets, until they got into the American feed, and then it was get-rich-quick schemes, Hollywood starlets, pornography, and Congressional scandal sheets-until they linked up with the law enforcement priority channel. Ferron checked the address and led Indrapramit into a massively multiplayer Artificial Reality that showed ...more
Elizabeth Bear, Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

Azar Nafisi
When we stop reading, we pave the way toward book burning; when we stop caring, we make way for someone else to take over control; when we prefer personality to character, and reality show or virtual reality to reality itself, then we get the kind of politicians that we deserve.
Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

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