Virtual Worlds


Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Snow Crash
The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World
Reamde
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
Warcross (Warcross, #1)
Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)
Second Life: The Official Guide
Otherworld (Last Reality, #1)
The Land: Founding (Chaos Seeds, #1)
AlterWorld (Play to Live, #1)
Opening Moves (The Gam3, #1)
Survival Quest (The Way of the Shaman, #1)
Omnitopia: Dawn (Omnitopia, #1)
Anima by Dalian HansenVirtually Strangers by Tess M. GarfieldThe Second Life of Isadora Tooley by D.B. HobbsVirtually Dead by Peter  MayTHE VIRTUAL LIBRARIAN by Theodore Rockwell
Second Life
41 books — 3 voters

Alex M. Vikoulov
The Simulation Singularity is the axis point in time where subjective dimensionality steps up one dimension. Think about it: If you could make multiple copies of yourself and set them out on different adventures in ultra-realistic virtual worlds and merge them later in order to have memories of all those adventures, if you could travel to artificially-recreated pasts or imaginary futures, if you could incorporate others’ high-definition memories into your own, wouldn’t that give you expanded dim ...more
Alex M. Vikoulov, The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence

When I was 11 it was spelled with a Big I. That was how I was taught it. How autocorrect corrected it. Like god to God. It was a place to visit. A proper noun. The Internet. The thinspo forums and videos of Saddam’s execution and the pics from that bat mitzvah I wasn’t invited to. I could go there and I went there that day after school on my clunky white laptop. I went there and I never came back. I went there because it was a world to escape into. I was Lucy walking through the wardrobe. I walk ...more
Honor Levy

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...May 16, 2012 to June 16, 2012... Whether you are a virtual reality oldbie or newbie, or even…more
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