Slum Online

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Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your Life

Etsuro Sakagami is a college freshman who simply drifts through life, but when he logs on to the combat MMO Versus Town, he becomes Tetsuo, a karate champ on his way to becoming the most powerful martial artist around. While his relationship with new classmate Fumiko goes nowhere, Etsuro spends his days and nights online in search of the invincible Ganker Jack. Drifting between the virtual and the real, will Etsuro ever be ready to face his most formidable opponent

Author Bio

Hiroshi Sakurazaka was born in Tokyo in 1970. After a career in informationtechnology, he published his first novel,Modern Magic Made Simple(Yoku wakaru gendai mahou), in 2003 with Super Dash Bunko, a popular young adult light novel imprint. There are now seven volumes in the series, and it was adapted as a manga in 2008 and as a television anime series in 2009. Sakurazaka publishedAll You Need Is Killwith Super Dash Bunko in 2004 and with itearned his first Seiun Award nomination for best of the year honors in Japanese science fiction.His2004 short story "Saitama Chainsaw Massacre" won the 16thSF MagazineReader's Award.

In 2009,All You Need Is Killwas the launch title for Haikasoru, a unique imprint dedicated to publishing the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy for English-speaking audiences.New York Timesbest-selling author John Scalzi declaredAll You Need Is Killto be a novel that "reads fast, kicks ass, and keeps on coming," and it has proven to be one of Haikasoru's most popular titles. Sakurazaka's other novels includeCharacters(cowritten withHiroki Azuma) andSlum Online, which was published in English by Haikasoru in 2010.

In 2010, Sakurazaka started an experimental digital magazine,AiR,with Junji Hotta. He remains one of Japan's most energetic writers of both light novels and adult science fiction.