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)
Insignia (Insignia, #1)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettGoing Postal by Terry PratchettThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
SFF: Best Characters
97 books — 20 voters

달빛 조각사 1 by Heesung NamReady Player One by Ernest ClineAlterWorld by D. Rusソードアート・オンライン 1 by Reki KawaharaThe Clan by D. Rus
MMORPG
104 books — 132 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
28 books — 19 voters


Ernest Cline
The Copper Key awaits explorers In a tomb filled with horrors But you have much to learn If you hope to earn A place among the high scorers
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

Azar Nafisi
...my worry is that this polarization, along with more and more dependance on virtual reality, prevents us from connecting with other human beings and with the real world. This lack of connection dehumanizes not just others but also ourselves.
Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

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