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Can I read For the Win: A Novel on EtoBox?
For the Win: A Novel by Cory Doctorow is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is For the Win: A Novel about?
From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up Wei-dong, known to his Orange County family as Leonard, is addicted to guild game play with his Chinese colleagues. Mala and Yasmin, brilliant strategists, are gaming from an Internet cafe in the poor streets of Dharavi. Matthew and Lu are trying to establish their own freelance gold-farming operation in the rough city of Shenzhen. Guided from Singapore by the secretive Big Sister Nor, these young people are slowly coming together and forming a union to demand basic working conditions and protection from organized crime rackets. In order to prove their strength, these Webblies take over the three games owned by the Coca-Cola Company. Battling for real-world rights in a virtual environment, they must overcome corrupt cops, determined sys ops, and social indifference to beat the game. Doctorow is continually at the leading edge of electronic issues, rallying supporters to the causes of intellectual freedom, privacy, and social justice. Readers will appreciate the game descriptions, but will have a harder time relating the gold-farming issues back to their own play. Lengthy asides detail the workings of the game economies, but they aren't as sk
Who reads For the Win: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Cory Doctorow
- Publisher
- Tor Teen
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780765322166
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Science Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (5,086 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14