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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. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Yasmin: Add a description of this character.
- Ashok
- Mala
- Matthew
- Weidong
- Connor Prikkel
- Mrs. Dotta
- Leonard Goldberg
- Mr. Banerjee
- Lu
- Justbob
- Bill
- Robotwallah
- Mr. Honnenahalli
- Coase
- Jiandi
- Kaden
- Gopal
- Mr. Phadkar
- Gordon
- Mamaji
- Webblies
- Dharavi
- Ruiling
- Ping
- Pinkertons
- Turk
- Master Fong
Quotes edit
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“I need my lathy in case I have to beat your brains out with it for rubbishing my home.”
Yasmin -
“Gold is such a useless thing, you know? It's heavy, it's not much good for making things out of - too soft for really long-wearing jewelry. Stainless steel is much better for rings.”
Ashok -
“It was a "handshake building", so close to the building next to it that the tenants could lean out their windows and shake hands with their neighbors across the lane.”
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“The world's economy is a runaway train, the driver dead at the switch, the passangers clinging on for dear life as their possessions go flying off the freight-cars and out the windows, and each curve in the tracks threatens to take it off the rails altogether.”
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the world wasn’t built on rock, but rather on sand, and it would shift forever.
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Having a set of pliers, a knife, and a screwdriver on you all the time changed the way you saw the world—it became a place to be cut, sliced, pried and unscrewed.
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The world’s economy is a runaway train, the driver dead at the switch, the passengers clinging on for dear life as their possessions go flying off the freight-cars and out the windows, and each curve in the tracks threatens to take it off the rails altogether.
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“Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint.” He swallowed. “No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that his way wasn’t just some natural instinct he was born with. It was something he battled for, in his own mind, every day.”
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Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it’s impossible to win by doing nothing.”
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Is it any wonder that eight of the twenty largest economies in the world are in virtual countries? And is it any wonder that playing has become such a serious business?
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The emotion that had driven them in that experimenter’s lab, that was driving the unseen bidders around the world: it wasn’t greed. It was envy.
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The fat and comfortable world he’d grown up in was not permanent: scratched in the sand, not carved in stone.
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The important thing about a game isn’t how fun it is, it’s how easy it is to start playing and how hard it is to stop.”
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So what? Why should anyone care how much it costs to get stuff done? Because the Coase cost is the price of being superhuman.
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First Sentence edit
In the game, Matthew's characters killed monsters, as they did every single night.
Table of Contents edit
Part I. The gamers and their games, the workers at their work.
Part II. Hard work at play.
Part III. Ponzi.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Cory Doctorow (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Tor Teen
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2216-6
Page Count: 480
Publisher: Tor Teen
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2216-6
Page Count: 480
Awards edit
- Prometheus Award (Finalist, 2011: Best Novel)
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