Jump into the virtual game "The World" in these novels from the hit series .hack. In .hack//G.U.'s thrilling third volume, the adventures of Haseo, his friend Shino, and Atoli, an Avatar, continue. Can Haseo unravel the mysteries of The World to save his friends?

Haseo's Avatar, Skeith, awakens to combat Endrance's Macha in fierce battle. As more information surfaces concerning the AIDA (Artifically Intelligent Data Anomoly) menace and the power of the Epitaphs, Haseo finds himself in a battle against time to stop the rogue player killer Tri-Edge before any more of the people he knows become Lost Ones. Finally, as the web of treachery and secrets begins to unravel, The World faces crisis in the form of the largest-scale AIDA attack ever!

A collection of five short stories about various characters from AI Buster and.

A collection of five short stories about various characters from AI Buster and.

In this fun, heated and imaginative fantasy set in an online gaming world ("School Library Journal"), Alcor focuses on a Twin Blade named Nanase who falls in love with Silabus.

Akira enters the online game "The World" in order to save her brother who is in a coma; and teams up with Kite to solve the mysteries of the Epitaph of Twilight and the cursed Wave.

Three years after the popular video game The World was shut down, Tokio Kuryuu cannot wait for The World R:X to come out. Unfortunately for him, he forgets to reserve a copy and finds himself with no access to the game. That is, until a mysterious new transfer student forces him into the game and makes him her servant!