For the win / Cory Doctorow.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765333841 (2012 trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780765322166
- Physical Description: 475 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Tor, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates Book." |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Computer games > Fiction. Video gamers > Fiction. Virtual reality > Fiction. Young adults > Fiction. Internet > Social aspects > Fiction. Teenagers > Fiction. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Futuristic fiction. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Lillooet Branch | JF DOC (Text) | 35180000312677 | Juvenile Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Midway Public Library | FIC TRA DOC (Text) | 25143000062769 | Adult Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
Parkland Secondary School | FIC DOC (Text) | BNSP900301907 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Four international teen players of a massive multiplayer online game are thrown together as part of a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the world of virtual gaming reality, a challenge that pits them against Mechanical Turks, game designers and a morally conflicted billionaire. By the author of the best-sellingLittle Brother . Reprint. - Baker & Taylor
In a future where poor children and teenagers work for corrupt bosses as gold farmers, finding valuable items inside massively-multiplayer online games, a small group of teenagers work to unionize and escape this near-slavery. - McMillan Palgrave
Now in paperback, the novel of youthful fightback against the global game bossesâfrom the author of Little Brother
- McMillan Palgrave
It's the twenty-first century, and all over the world, MMORPGs are big business. Hidden away in China and elsewhere, young players are pressed into working as "gold-farmers," amassing game-wealth that's sold to Western players at a profitable markup. Some of these pieceworkers rebel, trying to go into business for themselvesâbut there's little to stop their bosses from dragging them back into servitude. Some of them, like young Mala in the slums of Bombayânicknamed "General Robotwallah" for her self-taught military skillâbecome enforcers for the bosses, but that only buys them so much.
All the way over in L.A., young Wei-Dong, obsessed with Asian youth culture and MMORPGs, knows the system is rigged, knows that kids everywhere are being exploited. Finally, he and his Asian counterparts begin to work together to claim their rights. Under the noses of the ruling elites, they fight the bosses, the game owners and the rich speculators, outsmarting them with their street-gaming skills. But soon the battle will spill over from the virtual world to the real one, leaving the young rebels fighting not just for their rights, but for their livesâ¦.