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* CloneDegeneration: [[spoiler:Once outside the tanks, this nearly kills the team]].
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* SchrodingersButterfly: By the end, [[spoiler:it's not made clear whether the "real world" is just another layer of the games or not]].
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* SchrodingersButterfly: By the end, [[spoiler:it's not made clear whether the "real world" is just another layer of the games or not]].
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* SchrodingersButterfly: By the end, [[spoiler:it's not made clear whether the "real world" is just another layer of the games or not]].
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* ThisLoserIsYou: Much fun is poked at the kill 'em all kinds of players, but this is justified in-story.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: Much fun is poked at the kill 'em all kinds of players, but this is justified in-story.
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* AfterTheEnd: The world outside the games is a mess.
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* AfterTheEnd: The world outside the games is a mess.mess; it's said a war of some kind happened, and cities are only livable if they can offer products to other cities.
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* AfterTheEnd: The world outside the games is a mess.
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* XanatosGambit: The CEO of [=BlackStar=], Max, is ''very'' good at these. [[spoiler:He tells the team that they're all dying and can only live by going back into the tanks--and since they broke out, the only way they can return is if they ''choose'' to go back. When Dakota ''chainsaws his arm off'', he admits that there's an experimental cure for their sicknesses and tells them where to find it... and at the very end, it's revealed that choosing the cure put them back in the tanks]].
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* XanatosGambit: The CEO of [=BlackStar=], Max, is ''very'' good at these.these; he brags about them in-universe by telling Team Phoenix that no matter what they do, he wins. [[spoiler:He tells the team that they're all dying and can only live by going back into the tanks--and since they broke out, the only way they can return is if they ''choose'' to go back. When Dakota ''chainsaws his arm off'', he admits that there's an experimental cure for their sicknesses and tells them where to find it... and at the very end, it's revealed that choosing the cure put them back in the tanks]].
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* CloneDegeneration: [[spoiler:Once outside the tanks, this nearly kills the team]].
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* PeopleJars: Team Phoenix is [[spoiler:clones of to game developers, suspended in thick gels]].
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* PeopleJars: Team Phoenix is [[spoiler:clones of to top game developers, suspended in thick gels]].
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* TwistEnding: A double whammy. Phoenix sees [[spoiler:Dakota raving madly about being back in the games]] and, after thinking it over, realizes she is wrong. [[spoiler:And then after thinking some more he realizes she's ''right'']].
* XanatosGambit: The CEO of [=BlackStar=], Max, is ''very'' good at these. [[spoiler:He tells the team that they're all dying and can only live by going back into the tanks--and since they broke out, the only way they can return is if they ''choose'' to go back. When Dakota ''chainsaws his arm off'', he admits that there's an experimental cure for their sicknesses and tells them where to find it... and at the very end, it's revealed that choosing the cure put them back in the tanks]].
* XanatosGambit: The CEO of [=BlackStar=], Max, is ''very'' good at these. [[spoiler:He tells the team that they're all dying and can only live by going back into the tanks--and since they broke out, the only way they can return is if they ''choose'' to go back. When Dakota ''chainsaws his arm off'', he admits that there's an experimental cure for their sicknesses and tells them where to find it... and at the very end, it's revealed that choosing the cure put them back in the tanks]].
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Dakota is a non-romantic examples for her entire team; her questions lead them to question things and search for answers.
* OnlySaneMan: Dakota is the only one to question ''why'' they're constantly fighting and dying.
* OnlySaneMan: Dakota is the only one to question ''why'' they're constantly fighting and dying.
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* SpotTheThread: Finding inconsistencies or things that just don't make ''sense'' helps the team become aware of their memories, among other things. [[spoiler:This is played to scary effect in the ending]].
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* ArtificialBrilliance: Phoenix and his team are learning, self-aware AI.
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* ArtificialBrilliance: Phoenix and his team are learning, self-aware AI. This is because they're actually [[spoiler:cloned humans]].
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The main characters are [=NPCs=] in massively multiplayer online games. Beamed into different scenarios and games depending on the mission, Team Phoenix is the best of the best. They're more than just AI--they're intelligent, evolving AI that think tactically and adapt to situations, devising new ones much as humans would. The main character, Phoenix, is prefectly content with this life.
Then Dakota enters the team, and she starts acting...off. Phoenix and the others are comfortable in their world, but Dakota questions the very basis of their reality - she insists that she is more than just a program, and tries to talk things out rather than fight. Her questions and her actions will cause the others to question their roles and seek answers--but what they find may be more than they can handle.
Then Dakota enters the team, and she starts acting...off. Phoenix and the others are comfortable in their world, but Dakota questions the very basis of their reality - she insists that she is more than just a program, and tries to talk things out rather than fight. Her questions and her actions will cause the others to question their roles and seek answers--but what they find may be more than they can handle.
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The main characters are [=NPCs=] in massively multiplayer online games. Beamed into different scenarios and games depending on the mission, Team Phoenix is the best of the best. They're more than just AI--they're intelligent, evolving AI that think tactically and adapt to situations, devising new ones much as humans would. The main character, Phoenix, is prefectly perfectly content with this life.
Then Dakota enters the team, and she starts acting... off. Phoenix and the others are comfortable in their world, but Dakota questions the very basis of their reality - she insists that she is more than just a program, and tries to talk things out rather than fight. Her questions and her actions will cause the others to question their roles and seek answers--but what they find may be more than they canhandle.
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Then Dakota enters the team, and she starts acting... off. Phoenix and the others are comfortable in their world, but Dakota questions the very basis of their reality - she insists that she is more than just a program, and tries to talk things out rather than fight. Her questions and her actions will cause the others to question their roles and seek answers--but what they find may be more than they can
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: The CEO of [=BlackStar=] intends to make a game about what Team Phoenix is going through, giving us the book's title.
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* PeopleJars: Team Phoenix is [[spoiler:clones of to game developers, suspended in thick gels]].
* ThemeNaming: Phoenix and his team are named after cities or states.
* ThemeNaming: Phoenix and his team are named after cities or states.
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* {{Troperiffic}}: Many, many video game tropes are seen and examined.
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''Game Slaves'' is a YoungAdult ScienceFiction novel written by Gard Skinner.
The main characters are [=NPCs=] in massively multiplayer online games. Beamed into different scenarios and games depending on the mission, Team Phoenix is the best of the best. They're more than just AI--they're intelligent, evolving AI that think tactically and adapt to situations, devising new ones much as humans would. The main character, Phoenix, is prefectly content with this life.
Then Dakota enters the team, and she starts acting...off. Phoenix and the others are comfortable in their world, but Dakota questions the very basis of their reality - she insists that she is more than just a program, and tries to talk things out rather than fight. Her questions and her actions will cause the others to question their roles and seek answers--but what they find may be more than they can handle.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* ArtificialBrilliance: Phoenix and his team are learning, self-aware AI.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: No matter how brutal a death they receive, the [=ReSims=] heal the team completely.
* {{Gorn}}: Deaths are described in a good amount of detail.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Much fun is poked at the kill 'em all kinds of players, but this is justified in-story.
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The main characters are [=NPCs=] in massively multiplayer online games. Beamed into different scenarios and games depending on the mission, Team Phoenix is the best of the best. They're more than just AI--they're intelligent, evolving AI that think tactically and adapt to situations, devising new ones much as humans would. The main character, Phoenix, is prefectly content with this life.
Then Dakota enters the team, and she starts acting...off. Phoenix and the others are comfortable in their world, but Dakota questions the very basis of their reality - she insists that she is more than just a program, and tries to talk things out rather than fight. Her questions and her actions will cause the others to question their roles and seek answers--but what they find may be more than they can handle.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* ArtificialBrilliance: Phoenix and his team are learning, self-aware AI.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: No matter how brutal a death they receive, the [=ReSims=] heal the team completely.
* {{Gorn}}: Deaths are described in a good amount of detail.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Much fun is poked at the kill 'em all kinds of players, but this is justified in-story.
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