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We8217ve always dreamed of perfect places Eden heaven Utopia Imagine gambling without loss love without heartbreak sex without exposure experience without risk Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited every week by nearly fifty million people worldwide Each participant creates a virtual body works at virtual jobs and makes virtual friends and family In Second Lives Tim Guest an internationally acclaimed young journalist takes us on a revelatory journey through the electronic looking glass as he investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the twentyfirst centuryFrom Second Life to EverQuest and beyond here are the computergenerated environments and characters that can easily become more engrossing and fulfilling than earthly existence With the click of a mouse you can select eye color face shape height8211you can even give yourself wings Your character or avatar can build houses make and sell works of art earn money get married and divorcedIn this fascinating and groundbreaking book Guest meets people who found meaningful love and friendship despite never having met in person catches up with the companies that have used virtual worlds to make big money investigates the US military8217s massive online global model that trains soldiers to fight anyone anywhere and travels all the way to gamingcrazed Korea to get a taste for just how big this phenomenon really isAt first glance these new computergenerated places seem free from trouble and sorrow But Guest examines the dark side of this technology too including the online criminals who plague imaginary worlds from cyber mafiosos and prostitutes to real hackers and terrorists It seems that one cannot escape greed corruption and human weakness8211even inside a computer screenAre these virtual worlds a way to enhance life or to escape it Guest explores this question personally as he lets himself be transported into myriad parallel universes By turns provocative inspiring and disturbing Second Lives is a crucial book for this millennium After all real life is so twentieth centuryAdvance praise for Second Lives8220Tim Guest is a young writer with the literary goods My Life in Orange his hit memoir of growing up in a commune looked at his past his riveting new book Second Lives looks at our future the world of virtual reality and the spellbound people who inhabit it The book is some kind of revelation8211by turns compelling chilling and illuminating Curious intelligent offbeat and artful Guest is at the beginning of a big career822182128212John Lahr senior drama critic The New Yorker author of Prick Up Your Ears The Biography of Joe Orton Praise from England for Second Lives8220An anthropological adventure but also Guest8217s personal voyage a fascinating portrait of rainbow landscapes and their inhabitants82218211Time Out London8220Rich and colourful an important mapping of a new social frontier82218211The Guardian8220Remarkably timely82218211The Sunday Telegraph8220Astonishing82218211The Sunday Times. 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