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In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG - a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "Game Over" means certain death - both virtual and real...
About the Author
Reki Kawahara (?? ? Kawahara Reki, born August 17, 1974) is the Japanese author of the light novels and manga Sword Art Online and Accel World. Both series have been adapted into anime. He has also written The Isolator (??????? Zettainaru Aisor?ta) , a light novel series which began publishing in print in June 2014, after having been serialised online starting in 2004, and the manga and light novels for the spinoff series Sword Art Online: Progressive.The Sword Art Online series was first published online in 2002, under the pen name Fumio Kunori (???? ) . Kawahara entered the first Accel World novel into ASCII Media Works' 15th Dengeki Novel Prize in 2008 and the novel won the Grand Prize. The first novel was published by ASCII Media Works on February 10, 2009 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. As of October 10, 2015, 19 volumes have been published. After gaining fame from the Dengeki award, Kawahara republished Sword Art Online in print. 16 volumes have been published as of August 2015, as well as four volumes of Sword Art Online: Progressive. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
