- Internet games, Jóvenes (Mujeres), Juegos de rol, Spanish language materials
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 185
- Publisher
- Turtleback, Sapristi, Square Fish
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781480669956
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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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