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)
The Cyclops by Emerson LittlefieldThe Quest for Freedom by Matthew D. Devitt1984 by George OrwellIt by Stephen  KingGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
SFF: Best Plot
34 books — 35 voters
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakStardust by Neil GaimanThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
SFF: Best Prose
38 books — 17 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
93 books — 36 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
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


Douglas Adams
The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

Jonathan Gottschall
Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.
Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

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