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Sword Art Online 1 Was #4 on Barnes & Noble's Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
Reki Kawahara's light novel in North America last week
The official Reki Kawahara's original light novel series that was released in North America last week has risen to the number four spot on Barnes & Noble's Science Fiction & Fantasy bestseller list. As of Sunday, it has fallen to fifth place.
SCII Media Works' publishes the novels in North America.
The light novel series follows Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya, who enters a virtual-reality massively multi-player online (MMO) game called "Sword Art Online," but soon Kirito and the other 10,000 players in the game find they are permanently stuck in the world until someone clears the game, and where "game over" means the death of the player.
The light novels season is in production, and will premiere in July.