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For the Win

Cory Doctorow · 2010 · Novel

Setting: near future

Synopsis

Young adult science fiction set in the present or near future. The characters are "gold farmers" extracting virtual resources from online games and selling them to richer players. Their exploitation leads them to unionize, which leads to violence and trickery. In the virtual future, you must organize to survive At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual “gold,” jewels, and precious artifacts.

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Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: online gaminggold farmingeconomicsFictionScience FictionunionsInternet gamesTeenagersEmployee rightsJuvenile fiction

isfdb_id: 1098147

openlibrary_id: OL14908230W

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