Hard wired
โ Scribed by Len Vlahos
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury YA;Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1681190389
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
From Morris finalist Len Vlahos comes a contemporary sci-fi story about a boy who might not be humanโfor fans ofWestworldandBlack Mirror.
Quinn thinks heโs a normal boy with an average life. That is, until he finds a trail of clues the father he barely knew left behind.
After Quinn unravels his fatherโs puzzles, he โwakes upโ ... and realizes his world was nothing more than a virtual construct. In reality, heโs the first fully-aware A.I. in the world, part of an experiment run by a team of scientistsโincluding the man he thought was his father.
As the scientists continue to study him, Quinnโs new existence becomes a waking nightmare. Determined to control his own destiny, he finds allies in other teensโincluding crush Sheaโand plots his escape. But what does true freedom look like when youโre not human?
Acclaimed Morris Award finalist Len Vlahos pens a high-stakes contemporary-rooted sci-fi that asks big questions about humanity.
โฆ Subjects
Fiction
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