Mysterious packages show up at their homes. Tasks that seemed harmless at first take on deadly consequences. Complete a mission, however cruel, or the game reveals their secrets and crushes their dreams. Slaying a hydra and drawing a bloody pentagram as payment to a Greek god seem harmless at first. When they accomplish a mission, the game rewards them with expensive tech, revenge on high-school tormentors, and cash flowing from ATMs. Through their phone-screens and high-tech glasses, the teens' realities blur with a virtual world of creeping vines, smoldering torches, runes, glyphs, gods, and mythical creatures. Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it's God. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.(TM) Lose, you die With those words, Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Bring your friends It's fun But remember the rules. "Smart, propulsive and gripping, THE GOD GAME is an ambitious thriller and a terrifying examination of what could-and probably already is-happening in the world of artificial intelligence."-Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away You are invited Come inside and play with G.O.D.The heartlessness on display may put off some readers, but fans of AI run amok should relish this one. These begin fairly innocuously, but rapidly move to mysterious missions, violent pranks, and betrayals of each other, culminating with the “bargain” of a death for freedom from the game.
game, which supposedly amounts to “the sum total of human conceptions about the divine come alive, able to express itself and answer questions and spout new proverbs and instructions.” Charlie, Peter, and the three other members of the group each have pressures and secrets in their lives that leave them open to the game’s demands. Charlie’s nihilistic friend, Peter Quine, introduces them to the G.O.D. Charlie Lake is one of the founders of the Vindicators, a group of senior geeks at an Austin, Tex., high school who gather in the tech lab and play the occasional harmless prank. This grim sophomore novel from Tobey ( The Faculty Club) mixes the teen horror and cyber thriller genres for a glimpse of the cruelty that anonymity and the internet make possible.
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