- Published: 2 June 2008
- ISBN: 9780099493778
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $22.99
Second Lives
- Published: 2 June 2008
- ISBN: 9780099493778
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $22.99
Excellent journalistic study of virtual realities...and a useful account of how these technologies are evolving from mere games to parts of a lifestyle
Times Literary Supplement
Inspiring, troubling and consistently thought-provoking
Hot Books, Observer
Guest must be commended for investigating this topic. It is an area of digital culture ripe for further serious study as we continue to emerge from postmodernity into an era perhaps better described as the metamodern
Observer
Remarkably timely...an enthusiastic guide, who explains often complex ideas with a minimum of jargon, and tells some great stories
Sunday Telegraph
Guest maintains a sober head amid much Aquarian moonshine, and keeps his interviewees sympathetic, a fine achievement in a universe of geeks, fraudsters, and oddballs.
Daily Telegraph
Gripping
Scotland on Sunday
Compulsive
New Statesman
A fascinating look at a parallel universe - the body (and world) electric
Fortean Times
A fascinatingly detailed account that ranges from the therapeutic benefits of online interaction for those suffering from mental and physical disabilities to the hidden ideological agendas of those who create and regulate these worlds
Sunday Times