2040: The video game "Thousand Tales" has become a world. If you can afford to have your brain sliced and scanned, you can live there, maybe forever. Its ruling AI, Ludo, exists to help all her players have fun.
For Alma, "uploading" to Ludo's world is a better deal than dying of disease. She's got a new body, magic, uploader and native AI friends, and a country back in the real world that still needs her. Can she reconnect to Earth and make herself useful? She'd better be careful, though, because her new home isn't quite the heaven she expected.
A side-story set in the world of "Thousand Tales: How We Won the Game", but there's no need to read the series in order. This new edition of "Reconnection" is greatly revised and expanded.