Virtual World is the sixth young adult novel by the English writer Chris Westwood.

[1] Silicon Sphere is the new game with everything: dazzling super-real graphics, atmospheric sounds... but it also has a secret.

Stranger still, elements from Silicon Sphere are starting to reproduce themselves in the real world.

By the time he realizes that this is no game, it is too late to make his way back Times Educational Supplement: A powerful cyberspace novel that chillingly explores the manner in which players of computer games can become so absorbed by their digital adventures that it seems as if they are actually living in and interacting with the VDU landscape.

This is a gripping and important book, written in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.