Avatar and virtual worlds have been popping up in books for a while now. Snow Crash introduced the virtual villain in 1992 and the killer in 2005’s Cast of Shadows is tracked down in a virtual world.
Now Virtual Worlds are getting so mainstream, they’ve made it onto broadcast TV. On next week’s “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC Tuesdays, 10pm/9pm Central), they’re 
behind a young woman’s disappearance. Detectives Benson and Stabler track down clues in an online virtual-reality game (Second Life?) where the woman played an underage prostitute. Apparently she had put out a notice about a dangerous virtual “client.”
Next up, James Cameron’s $190 million movie “Avatar” will be released in 2009. In it, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet inhabited by a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Giovanni Ribisi will star, along with tons of create CG effects, naturally.
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