In Real Life, Paperback

Descriere

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAnda 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.

Despre autor

Cory Doctorow

blogger canadian-britanic, activist pentru drepturile oamenilor · n. 1971

Cory Efram Doctorow este un blogger, jurnalist și autor științifico-fantastic canadian și are rolul de co-editor al weblog-ului „Boing Boing”. El este activist în favoarea liberalizării drepturilor de autor și un susținător al organizației „Creative Commons”, folosind unele din licențele lor pentru cărțile sale.