Ones and Zeroes (Mirador 2)
By (Author) Dan Wells
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Balzer and Bray
5th April 2018
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Science and technology
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Science fiction
FIC
Paperback
432
Width 134mm, Height 203mm
270g
From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.
Overworld. Its more than just the worlds most popular e-sportfor thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe its a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible.
Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, this could mean anythinga chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seemsrife with corruption, infighting, and dangerand Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.
An excellent pick for fans of gaming and futuristic thrillers. Give this to dystopian readers who are looking for a new twist on the future of the world. SLJ
Dan Wells is the author of the John Cleaver series: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster , and I Don't Want To Kill You . He has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Campbell Award and has won two Parsec Awards for his podcast Writing Excuses. He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books, and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child.