- online gaming, gold farming, economics, Fiction
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, epic and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Cory Doctorow
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 478
- Publisher
- Tor Teen, Harper Voyager, TOR
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007352012
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From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. 2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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