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Jason, a bullied high school student, logs into a new virtual-reality game and takes the path of a necromancer, playing the villain.
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Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad
Ten thousand players log into Sword Art Online, a new virtual-reality game, and find they cannot log out, and that dying in the game means dying for real.
Ready Player One
In a dystopian future, a teenager's encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s pop culture becomes the key to inheriting a virtual world's fortune.
Solo Leveling
In a world where gates to monster-filled dungeons have opened, Sung Jinwoo, the weakest of the hunters, survives a deadly dungeon and finds he can level up alone.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
When aliens demolish Earth's surface for an intergalactic game show, Carl and his ex-girlfriend's prize-winning cat, Princess Donut, plunge into an eighteen-level dungeon where the audience loves blood.
Steelheart
Ten years after a burst in the sky gave ordinary people superpowers and made them tyrants, David, who saw Steelheart, the invincible ruler of Newcago, bleed on the day he killed David's father, sets out to join the Reckoners, who assassinate Epics.
He Who Fights with Monsters
Jason Asano, an Australian office worker, wakes up in a magical world with a game-like system of powers, the gifts of a dark mage and a talent for annoying everyone he meets.
Sufficiently Advanced Magic
Corin Cadence enters the spire, a tower whose trials grant magical powers to those who pass, hoping to find his brother, who went in five years ago and never came out.
Ender's Game
A gifted child is recruited to a military academy in space, where he must train to fight an alien invasion that may already be lost.
Threadbare
A teddy bear made by a magical toymaker wakes up in a world of game-like levels and classes, and sets out to protect the little girl who owns him.
Terms of Enlistment
Andrew Grayson escapes the welfare tenements of a crowded future North America the only way he can, by enlisting, and is sent to fight rioters at home and something far worse in space.
First and Only
Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt leads the Tanith First and Only, the last regiment of a world destroyed on the day it was founded, through an endless galactic war.
Halo: The Fall of Reach
John-117, taken from his family as a child for the secret SPARTAN-II programme, grows up into the supersoldier who will fight humanity's war against the alien Covenant.