As a grad student at Stanford, Jason Lind leads an active life: computer programming, teaching a course, being a teacher assistant, and sometimes writing papers for pretty girls. So maybe his life is active but not exciting. All of that changes when he becomes immersed in the popular virtual online gaming community in FORTUNA. Quickly, Jason discovers how thoroughly RL (real life) and the game world can merge...and how seriously some people take their games.

A wonderful exploration of the slippery slope of the seduction from a virtual world, FORTUNA is intricately detailed, well-researched, and thoroughly developed.