Isso se parece muito com o Otherland de Tad William:
Meanwhile, in the late 21st century, technology has advanced so that the internet has become a vast Virtual Reality network. The most realistic connections to the network are achieved by using an expensive, surgically implanted bio-port interface at the back of the user's neck called a 'Neurocannula'.
However, around the world, children are falling victim to a disease known as Tandagore Syndrome, which in its most serious form is a deep coma from which the patient cannot wake.
Irene "Renie" Sulaweyo, an instructor in "virtual engineering" at a polytechnic institute in Durban, is devastated when her younger brother, Stephen, falls victim to this disease.
