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[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anything where the protagonist gets to build a new world in a virtual environment, or significantly modify themselves by using virtual environments. Examples: "Fall, or Dodge in Hell - By Neal Stephenson" and "Accelerando - by Charles Stross"

spoilerDodge in Hell - where he is uploaded into a host system that has only a very basic physics model and nothing else. He gets to create the world by experiencing it, and remembering what things 'feel' like. Such as inventing gravity by watching a leaf fall to the ground and it feeling right.