{"id":11017,"date":"2020-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:51:12","slug":"a-is-for-ash-saving-the-world-again-otaku-by-chris-kluwe-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11017","title":{"rendered":"A is for Ash, saving the world again: OTAKU, by Chris Kluwe (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saving the world is easy for Ash and her team,
they do it in-game with ease and flair\u2026
Now, can they save the real world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Water Wars, CCA’s iron religious fist forces unbelievers into overcrowded Ditchtown, stilted above drowned Miami, and the Game is their best escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To pay for Mom’s care, Ashley courier runs at double-speed, hoping her brother can stay out of trouble, saving just enough to rent in-Game hapticwear<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ashura the Terrible, her team dominates the Game leaderboard by skill and sword and rocket maneuvers, ignoring racial and sexual threats posted on the ‘Net<\/a>, staying a jump ahead of those who want their secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, they are caught in a real war between theocrats who believe their own prophecies and technocrats who worship their devices and data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it’s up to this team of young women stop a humanity-ending chain reaction in real time, outside the Game, with just one life left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

+++++
Read an excerpt of Otaku<\/em> at the publisher’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you decide what’s really worth fighting for?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Otaku \/ Chris Kluwe. Tor Forge Books, 2020. [author Twitter<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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