Bluescreen
By Dan Wells
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“Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome.”—James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner
From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni—a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen—and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.
Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the net—going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it’s Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen—a virtual drug that plugs right into a person’s djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected.
Dan Wells
DAN WELLS writes a little bit of everything, but he is best known for the Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, the first book of which is now a major motion picture. He is a co-host of the educational podcast Writing Excuses, for which he won a Hugo and now helps run a yearly, week-long writing conference. In addition to novels, novellas, and shorts, he has also written and produced a stage play, called "A Night of Blacker Darkness," and works as a staff writer on the TV show "Extinct." He has lived in the US, Mexico, and Germany, and currently resides in Utah with his wife and six children and 439 board games.
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Reviews for Bluescreen
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was thoroughly confused for a few chapters and then the book started growing on me and I did end up enjoying it. I thought there were way too many supporting characters, but I didn't get them mixed up which is good. The future technology was super neat to read about. I do however hope that the world never turns up like it does in BLUESCREEN. I thought BLUESCREEN was a good start to Dan Well's new series. If readers can get past the confusion in the beginning I think they will have no problem wanting to read book two.* This book was provided free of charge from Publisher in exchange for an honest review.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bluescreen is a science fiction thriller.Marisa is a great coder--one of the best and plays online games in hopes of competing professionally with her team. This is the future where computers are embedded in your brain and you blink to select what you want. People are quite poor because machines do everything, from cleaning to delivering pizza. There’s nothing left. If you want a job, you need to move to Mexico. When one of Marisa’s teammates buys Bluescreen, a drug, Marisa realizes that the drug dealers are worth fighting because this drug is dangerous.As they begin investigating, Marisa and her team learn that gangs are involved as well. Bluescreen takes over your mind and someone else can control your body. As this virus is being sold mainly to the rich, Marisa believes they are trying to control people who have power. Economically, this could cripple the world. With people willing to go to these lengths, Marisa and her friends are in a very perilous situation. Overall, I liked the novel. It’s different. I thought it was odd that adults talked about Marisa as a bad influence; she’s not. She’s very talented in fact and has a moral and ethical conscience. The world is a scary world where humans are really not necessary except the rich. The poor struggle and have to resort to questionable activities to make money. Marisa’s brother is one of these people who belongs to a local gang, so the connection between the poor and rich is made to allow Marisa access to people who can help her. I think those of you who really like computers will particularly enjoy the novel, but anyone who likes futuristic thrillers, will enjoy it as well!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is the year 2050 and people are literally plugged in. They have neural implants called ‘djinnis’ that give them access to the virtual world 24/7 including games, info, ads, and, yes, malware. Now there’s a new virtual drug called bluescreen that is hitting the clubs and the schoolyard. Soon, very bad things start happening that are linked to the drug and it is clear that bluescreen has some very nasty side effects. Trouble is both sides of the law seem to have a stake in keeping the drug available and it is left to a group of young hackers/gamers to stop it.Bluescreen by author Dan Wells is an action-packed YA scifi novel full of interesting world building – it is easy to believe in the future Wells has created since it has enough similarties to the present to be familiar and enough differences to make it intriguing. There is also a fairly large cast of characters, most of whom are likeable. Well’s sparse no-frills prose kept the story moving at a fast pace and helped ramp up the tension. I did find much the computer stuff a bit distracting but I have to admit to being a complete illiterate in all things computer so this may not be a problem for others. Overall, though, it’s one fast and rollicking ride and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Good thing it’s first in a series because I’m really looking forward to more.