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. It's more than just the world's most popular e-sport-for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it's 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 anything-a 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 seems-rife with corruption, infighting, and danger-and 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.
| ISBN: | 9780062347916 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 2018 |
| Author: | Dan Wells |
| Publisher: | Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Series: | Mirador |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Romance and love stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Computing and Information Technology Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Diversity, equality and inclusion |