Cyberbia: Doomsday General
Cyberbia: Doomsday General by Justin Greene
322 Pages
Publisher: Zanami Media
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Fiction, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Computer Games, Teens, Young Adult
Jack and Hallie are preteens who have known each other since babies. Jack is obsessed with a cannibal zombies’ game. The zombies are too lifelike and the designers back off from the realism. One even commits suicide.
Hallie tells him about a new game, Cyberbia, by the same designer, Electric Dreams. The player creates a character called a “Norm.” Hallie visits Jack and is disturbed by his obsession with finding a secret way into the game. Shortly after, he goes missing. After what is called a computer glitch in Cyberbia, Hallie becomes catatonic. Jack’s father, a world-renowned neurologist sees something unusual in Hallie’s brain scan. It looks lke computer code.
The book has a fast pace, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is writtin in the third person point of view. As developers work closer to true artificial intelligence, science fiction and science are coming closer together. If you like computer games, or young adulg science fiction, you may enjoy this book.
