For the Win: A NovelIt's the twenty-first century, and all over the world, MMORPGs are big business. Hidden away in China and elsewhere, young players are pressed into working as "gold-farmers," amassing game-wealth that's sold to Western players at a profitable markup. Some of these pieceworkers rebel, trying to go into business for themselves—but there's little to stop their bosses from dragging them back into servitude. Some of them, like young Mala in the slums of Bombay—nicknamed "General Robotwallah" for her self-taught military skill—become enforcers for the bosses, but that only buys them so much. |