The Aldens, while testing the latest version of their favorite computer game, are surprised to find messages directed specifically at them.

Brett and Tom, video game whizzes, find virtual reality to be dangerously real when they let a new computer game take over their minds.

"Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. Or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos...

“Halting State [is] a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable.” – Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End        
      
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates—a dot-com start-up...

A new cops-and-crooks computer game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life. Now the game's designer, Grace, and her oddball programmers must rethink their game to deduce the killer's next target.

A boy who likes nothing but playing computer games is in trouble when the power goes out and his little sister has all of the batteries in the house.

Fifteen-year-old math prodigy Seth Gordon hopes to compete professionally playing Starfare, the world's most popular computer game, but when he gets the chance to move to Korea and train full-time, he may not be ready for the culture shock and leaving his possible girlfriend, Hannah.

A bolt of lightening charges a state-of-the-art computer adventure game with life and leaves the best-selling author who is testing the game struggling to fill the role of God.

"In this third installment of the Minecraft Gamer's Adventure series, Steve is invited to participate in an elite building competition on Mushroom Island. His friends Max, Lucy, and Henry are impressed and want to join their friend on a journey to the island. Getting there is half the fun, and the group treks through the jungle, where they find a rare temple filled with treasure! But getting the treasure isn't easy, and they have to fight fierce battles...

Steve receives a distress call from his friends Max, Lucy, and Henry, who have found an abundance of treasure in a temple, but can't get it out! He immediately sets off for the temple to help, but saving his friends and helping them extract the treasure isn't as easy as he thinks it will be.