It’s BZRK. Noah and Sadie: newly initiated to an underground cell so covert that they don’t even know each other’s names. Here they will learn what it means to fight on a nano level. Soon they will become the deadliest warriors the world has ever seen. Vincent: feels nothing, cares for no one; fighting his own personal battle with Bug Man, the greatest nano warrior alive. The Armstrong Twins: wealthy, privileged, fanatical.
Are they the saviours of mankind or authors of the darkest conspiracy the world has ever seen? The nano is uncharted territory. A terrifying world of discovery. And everything is to play for..."
To be honest, it has been so long since I read this that I don't fully remember all of it.
But here's what I have got. BZRK is your standard everyday tale of people who control nanotech to 'hack' the minds of others, carrying out personality (and policy) adjustments as well as assassinations in order to take control of the world. Battles are carried out, by and large, by teens controlling nanotech to take over the world.
So, so, wonderful.
Not to mention the fact that this is written by one half of the pair behind Animorphs. Alongside his wife, K. A. Applegate, Grant wrote my favourite series of all time, a series notable for its brutal realism about conflict, it's willingness to put teenage protagonists in mortal peril and actually follow through on that. All in all, a series in which a global conflict over the literal minds of the leaders of the free world isn't necessarily going to go well.
It's a cracking read, in the vein of the dystopian fiction that so much of teenage fare has become, with a more technological side which is bound to appeal to most teens. Well worth a read, in other words.
Also Try:
K. A. Applegate, Animoprhs
Michael Grant, Gone
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
But here's what I have got. BZRK is your standard everyday tale of people who control nanotech to 'hack' the minds of others, carrying out personality (and policy) adjustments as well as assassinations in order to take control of the world. Battles are carried out, by and large, by teens controlling nanotech to take over the world.
So, so, wonderful.
Not to mention the fact that this is written by one half of the pair behind Animorphs. Alongside his wife, K. A. Applegate, Grant wrote my favourite series of all time, a series notable for its brutal realism about conflict, it's willingness to put teenage protagonists in mortal peril and actually follow through on that. All in all, a series in which a global conflict over the literal minds of the leaders of the free world isn't necessarily going to go well.
It's a cracking read, in the vein of the dystopian fiction that so much of teenage fare has become, with a more technological side which is bound to appeal to most teens. Well worth a read, in other words.
Also Try:
K. A. Applegate, Animoprhs
Michael Grant, Gone
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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