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A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape--and attack the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality!
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 28, 2000
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Mel Odom
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Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
aka Jordan Gray
Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
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October 17, 2020
I can’t believe that the great Tom Clancy would lend his name to this geeky genre. Clancy, the king of military realism, meets the virtual reality (annoyingly called “veeyar” in this book) world of online gaming. Anything for a buck. While the VR world offers exciting scenes of adventure and fantasy, it is hard to become emotionally involved when you realize that virtual people don’t really die, they just get disconnected from the net.
Without reading the previous books in this series, it is hard to figure out who the Net Force Explorers actually are and what the individual characters do. As far as I can determine, they are a younger version (they all live with their parents) of the Net Force (internet police) whose job is to police the online gaming world. Yet they also seem to be ardent game players and developers themselves. The character development is poor. What is the difference between Mark and Matt? What do they all do? And the chief game developer is named Peter Griffen. Seriously? After Peter Griffin of The Family Guy?
The book offers an inside look at the gaming industry, yet it seems to be written primarily for teenage nerds.
Without reading the previous books in this series, it is hard to figure out who the Net Force Explorers actually are and what the individual characters do. As far as I can determine, they are a younger version (they all live with their parents) of the Net Force (internet police) whose job is to police the online gaming world. Yet they also seem to be ardent game players and developers themselves. The character development is poor. What is the difference between Mark and Matt? What do they all do? And the chief game developer is named Peter Griffen. Seriously? After Peter Griffin of The Family Guy?
The book offers an inside look at the gaming industry, yet it seems to be written primarily for teenage nerds.
April 23, 2024
The kids of Net Force are in LA for a big computer convention. There is going to be a game introduced that is the "bomb" The only problem is the designer has been kidnapped and the game has bleed through to other games. Can the kids find out what is happening?
February 23, 2021
hard to keep up with
November 23, 2021
Eh...
Not Tom Clancy but cute. Intended for the young uns. Heehee. I'll just keep reading them for nostalgia purposes and they dont make me mad...
Not Tom Clancy but cute. Intended for the young uns. Heehee. I'll just keep reading them for nostalgia purposes and they dont make me mad...
May 18, 2014
I didn't realize that this was Net Force Explorers series, which is apparently the next generation for Net Force. Much younger characters with much less savvy, though plenty of technical/VR skills.
Spoiler: Fell a little short in making critical plot connections imo, such as how the main person kidnapped was actually found?
It was ok, but I admit that my perspective was skewed by my expectation that the characters would be Net Force. Worth trying another in the series. Loved the high tech, hologram, VR developments.
Spoiler: Fell a little short in making critical plot connections imo, such as how the main person kidnapped was actually found?
It was ok, but I admit that my perspective was skewed by my expectation that the characters would be Net Force. Worth trying another in the series. Loved the high tech, hologram, VR developments.
October 14, 2014
Nice story, sometimes confusing with all the techno stuff/ language but all in all a good story
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