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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherre
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:06:16 -0700
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Hello typers and reades.

	"Into the Real" by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer.

     The heroine of the story is a HS student Lynn Raven, a descendant
of a Lakota warrior.  She is a bit heavy which has lead to lots of
ridicule by vicious Popular students.  At the beginning of the story
she is absorbed in virtual war gaming.  She has constructed male
ex-military persona for the war gaming and is quite high in the
rankings and hired by other parties to help defeat their opponents.
In her own words she loves to kill stuff.
	Her mother is a nurse working nights and is unaware of her daughter's 
gaming interests being mainly concerned with paying off
debts accrued after her husband's murder while he was working undercover.
     Suddenly Lynn is offered a chance to be a beta tester for the
game Transdimensional Hunter by one of the creators of the game.
She leads 2 teams  to victory in a regional tournament.
"Into the Real" refers to the idea that this young woman has been a
  typical gamer in that she spends all her time in the body-conforming 
chair in front of her monitor.  She, taking on the role of beta tester, 
is forced to since it is an Augmented Reality game like the Pokemon 
capture game played with smart phone and she has to go outside.
Unlike the Pokemon game the Transdimensional Monsters are vicious
and she has to use weapons to defeat the monsters and then collect
what they drop so she is forced to get into shape.
     Now throughout the story various power failures take place and
these are all clues which I put together but at the end of the story
I was totally correct.
     This is very similar to other stories where game players are 
training for wars or fighting them.  Ringo and Sherrer do good work
and if you have time you should read this.

	bliss

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