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I've been trying to remember what this book is since I read it sometime in the mid '90s. I remember that the plot was something about having to get a game out on time. One of the female programmers was jacking in to the development software while asleep, and allowing her dreams to program the game. I remember one of the other girls was a "born again and again Hindu" who wore her clothes by attaching them to the snaps embedded in her flesh. The main character was a male who had at some point crippled a young girl (whose alias was something like "Fluffy Bunny") in a hacker-battle, and was paying to keep her alive in her vegetative state.

Edit: Thinking more about it, I read it in February 1996, in (trade?) paperback. I could swear it was purchased at a Scholastic Book Fair, as I recall thinking that some of the themes were pretty mature for something purchased there.

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asked Feb 6 at 9:58

Gord Hatt
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GoryDetails · Answer 1 · 2010-02-06 15:15:30Z UTC

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Could it be one of P. J. Tracy's "Monkeewrench" books? I read the first book some time ago and am a bit hazy on the details, but the computer-game/hacking/dream concepts sound familiar. And there are several books in the series, so if it wasn't the first one it might be one of the others.

answered Feb 6 at 15:15

GoryDetails
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Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be what I was looking for, but it does look like it might be interesting anyway. Thanks! – Gord Hatt Feb 8 at 5:41

Ryan · Answer 2 · 2010-02-08 21:16:29Z UTC

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Tad Williams wrote a series of books that sound like they might be this, though it also involved enslavement of a child's mind to run a "super computer" system for some game...I think.

I think the series title, or maybe the first book was called otherland.

answered Feb 8 at 21:16

Ryan
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Well, while this doesn't sound like it, I'm not keeping an eye out for this as something new to read, as it sounds rather interesting. – Gord Hatt Feb 23 at 8:53

Rebekah D · Answer 3 · 2010-02-22 15:52:10Z UTC

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Possibly Gemini game by Michael Scott? Our catalog description is "When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer game company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming" but it's not on shelf so I can't check the software development while sleeping part.

answered Feb 22 at 15:52

Rebekah D
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Curses! I thought that almost sounded like it, although they're too young for what I remember. But some summaries of it I've found online don't match up with what is in my head. – Gord Hatt Feb 23 at 8:54

I found Gemini Game and was re-reading it, but more details don't fit. It has VR games and the main characters (boy and girl) are Game Makers, on the run because people are in comas b/c they died while playing a game designed by the game makers. They end up fighting the virus hidden in their computer world. One character can plug directly into the game and change things easily (spoiler - she created the virus). No clothes with snaps embedded in flesh or hacker battles leading to crippling (only comas). – Rebekah D Feb 24 at 15:53

Cyberpunk-ish book identification.

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