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Vivienne has poured so many hours into the massively popular VRMMO The Seven Cataclysms that she has more of a life inside the game than out. It's a fitting irony, then, when one day she wakes in the body of her maxed-out demon-mage Vivisari — and finds that now, the game really is her life. But the world of Seven Cataclysms isn't what she remembers. A hundred years have passed since the game's concluding events, and Vivisari is a hero of myth thought long dead. As she meets old faces and new in this familiar-yet-not world, casting spells of mass destruction and slowly reforming the scattered remnants of her Guild, she starts to wonder if she was sent here with a purpose. Rumors of a sequel had been circulating just before her unbelievable reincarnation — did she need to fear an impending Eighth Cataclysm?

On paper, Jason has a great life. In reality, he has spent most of high school tormented by students and faculty alike, with parents who are never home. His one escape is video games — and a new full-immersion virtual reality game called Awaken Online promises even greater freedom. Once inside, Jason finds himself drawn toward the path of the villain, commanding the undead and building an empire in the darkness. But the deeper he goes, the more he suspects something strange is happening within the game itself.

Ashlyn has been reborn five years in the past — both a gift and a curse. She wakes into the wreckage of a life she already lived and ruined, with nothing to show for it except five years of deep expertise in Elysium, the greatest virtual reality game ever made, and the ache of friendships lost. Armed with foreknowledge, she intends to fix her mistakes, save the relationships she destroyed, and blaze her way to the top with a brand-new class: the Mystic Mage.

In a dystopian future, life at the bottom is brutal. Jobs don't exist in the real world, and millions survive only by working in VR worlds as servants to the wealthy. The last surviving AI has been ordered to build a new game world — a playground for the rich and a global marketplace for corporations. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck. Four friends sign five-year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, barred from adventuring entirely. Handed mops instead of swords, they face a simple choice: work as a blacksmith, barmaid, and shepherd for five years — or cheat, find the loopholes, and carve out a piece of the world for themselves.

Trapped in his own body by a debilitating medical condition, Thorn seeks reprieve through full immersion into the game world of Nova Terra. Adventuring alongside allies, he discovers ancient evil and a forgotten god that sets him on a crash course with one of the most powerful guilds in the game. In order to adjust to a life of quests, skill mastery, and magic, Thorn must forget everything he knows and embrace a new world that is much more than it seems.

Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of steel and concrete. He spends his days repairing the machinery that keeps his habitat livable and tinkering with the prosthetics that help his twisted body navigate the small tunnels and air shafts that are his world. He's as much a piece of discarded machinery as the equipment he keeps running. When the criminals he escaped from return, stealing everything from them seems like a fine way to stay busy — especially when the haul includes a new MK7 immersion pod used to enter the virtual world of Genesis. Milo has always lived in tunnels, and now he's a Tunnel Rat in looks, not just name. He wants to go deep, find ancient mysteries, make new friends, and fix things. Hopefully he fixes more than he breaks, or this new world might be in trouble.

After being betrayed and cursed by an extremely rare spell, Oren — a powerful and influential player — finds himself reset to a 1st-level Goblin. Without even a fraction of his previous power, he vows to pull through and have revenge on those who betrayed him. His thorough knowledge of the game's world and his unique ability to fully immerse himself are his only advantages. First, he must figure out how to survive long enough playing as what is basically a low-level fodder monster.

Alphonso Richt is an expert botanist and genius chemist who recently burned down his lab — and lost his job along with it. Given the chance to blow off steam in Nova Terra, a cutting-edge game still in beta, Alph discovers Alchemy: a field that lets him bring his unique scientific insights to bear on the wonders of magic. Best of all, nobody minds if his potions explode.

The year is 2493. After AI wars eradicated three centuries of technological progress, humanity survived thanks to immortal martial artists called the Old Monsters. A technology known as time dilation emerged, tripling human life expectancy — until corporations seized control of it and enslaved the world. Raine KongRu signed a life-long contract with CronGate and spent his best years as another cog in their rise to power. Now he's awoken in his old body, two days before it all began. With a chance to amend his mistakes, he'll have his revenge while teaching the world exactly how deadly a man becomes after thirty years of the most brutal martial combat ever imagined.

The Singularity — the merger of man and machine — is within humanity's grasp. Programmer Jeff Lawing joins Singularity Online, the world's first truly realistic VRMMO and the testing ground for this breakthrough technology. Singularity is darker and more dangerous than Jeff imagined. Playing as a Sorcerer, his arcane magic is limited only by his imagination — but will it be enough to survive the deadliest training quest he's ever faced, or to protect himself in a fallen realm overrun by the undead?

When a software malfunction traps players inside the full-immersion game Chronicles of Retha with no way to log off, veteran player Kit finds herself stuck in the worst possible character — an elf dancer built as a prank. The only escape route is to defeat the game's ultimate villain, Malignus. Kit must fight her way through Retha's dangers with a party of equally underpowered misfits, and the reluctant help of Solus Miles, one of the best players in the game.

A ruined life. A broken heart. He thought it was the end, and his gun sat ready to make sure. But an oddball offer from his only friend comes at the literal last second. Curiosity gets the best of him, and he finds himself sucked into iNcarn8, a game claiming to be a whole new life. Now as Montana, the larger-than-life tank warrior, he has one more last time to get his life right.

Ryan Rosa has had a run of bad luck, but when he receives a VIP package for the newest virtual reality game, his luck takes a turn for the better — until he's stabbed in the back by a guild of players who betray him for a unique weapon he possesses. Ryan contemplates doing the one thing every player hates: re-rolling his unique character and starting over. But even starting over won't save him in New Realm Online. He'll have to work smarter to avoid using his last re-roll.

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade has devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines — puzzles based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past, promising massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win — and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

The once popular game Yggdrasil was supposed to shut down. But the players who stayed online past the moment the servers went quiet found themselves transported to a game world made real. Leading them is Momonga—a man whose love of games brought him only loneliness in the real world, now a skeletal sorcerer of overwhelming power. As the new Ainz Ooal Gown, he must navigate this strange new world and build a legend from the tomb of his guild.

In the online game Glory, Ye Xiu is regarded as a textbook example of a top-tier professional player. Forced out of the scene, he finds work managing an internet cafe. When Glory launches its tenth server, Ye Xiu — armed with ten years of experience and an incomplete self-made weapon — throws himself back into the game. Bringing memories of his past and a genius for play, his return to the summit begins.

Corporate flameout Ned Altimer dives into the VRMMO Earthblood Online and never looks back. His advantages are twofold: exclusive access to the game's three-day Head Start period, and a ridiculously handsome talking axe named Frank who knows the game's deepest secrets—if he ever feels like sharing them. But those advantages also make Ned a target. Once the Head Start ends, his fellow players will stop at nothing to rip that suave, violent, disarmingly charismatic axe right out of his hands. In seventy-two hours, the greatest manhunt in gaming history begins.

On the brink of death, a burned-out man in his late thirties is offered one last chance at life through experimental early access to a full-dive VRMMO — with one condition: he cannot log out. Sent into the world years before launch, he becomes something no developer planned: a seemingly permanent inhabitant living inside the game long before players arrive. While future adventurers dream of fame and leaderboards, he chooses a quieter path — claiming land in the mountains, learning blacksmithing, mining deep veins of ore, and slowly building a life with his hands. For a long while, the world is his alone. Then players begin to appear. To the first of them, he looks like a strange NPC with skills that shouldn't exist yet. He doesn't correct them. He would very much like to be left alone. Unfortunately, the world has other plans.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game — it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. To make some quick cash, she hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships — only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. Instead of being arrested, she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka: he needs a spy inside this year's tournament to uncover a security problem. Whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune, Emika soon uncovers a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.