- JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, Virtual reality, Video games, Fiction
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- S. J. Kincaid
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 446
- Publisher
- Katherine Tegen Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062092991
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