Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world.

Many science fiction books have imagined characters being "trapped in virtual reality" or entering into virtual reality.
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Nova Terra: Greymane (The Titan, #2)
Walking in Two Worlds (Walking in Two Worlds #1)
Dominion (Awaken Online, #4)
The Land: Predators (Chaos Seeds, #7)
Evolution (Awaken Online, #3)
Hellion (Awaken Online, #5)
Regicide (The Completionist Chronicles, #2)
OtherLife (Last Reality, #3)
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Nebula Secret (Explorer Academy, #1)
88 Names
Legacy of the Fallen (Ascend Online, #2)
Unanimity (Spiral Worlds, #1)
The Simulation Hypothesis
Otherearth (Last Reality, #2)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Warcross (Warcross, #1)
Snow Crash
The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctrine, #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
Wildcard (Warcross, #2)
Heir Apparent (Rasmussem Corporation, #2)
City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
Otherworld (Last Reality, #1)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Insignia (Insignia, #1)
The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakStardust by Neil GaimanThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
SFF: Best Prose
42 books — 19 voters

Unanimity by Alexandra AlmeidaBattlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. CarverEx Machina by Alex GarlandBattle Angel Alita, Vol. 1 by Yukito KishiroDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Fiction Like Westworld
43 books — 16 voters


The believability of virtuality is oft superior to the unrealness of reality
Vineet Raj Kapoor

Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer fool say that religion is the 'older virtual reality' experience, to justify his scam industry. No, the denuded state of the spirit and intellect, where you walk around 'demystified' and 'disenchanted' is the virtual reality condition, and a terrible condition at that. ...more
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