Diane Duane
start and ending, obviously leads to more stories, The meat of the book is fantasmical, I am anxious to see how the characters develope in future books, Having moderated my expectations for the Net Force and Net Force Explorer series, I just couldn't get into the plot line on this one, Too much of it was concentrated on the VR gaming world itself, Though I've played online games, this one just didn't resonate for me,
Not giving up on the series, just not enamored with this volume, My first but hopefully not last read book from this author, Great way to describe scenarios and characters so you can get caught with the story, and of course the unsuspected twist of events and the way the climax gets into you is amazing.
Het dodelijkste spel geschreven door Tom Clancy en Steve Pieczenik, Het eerste deel van de Netforce explorers
Plot
De start is wat moeilijk om in te komen maar gaandeweg betert dit wel,
Het verhaal speelt zich af in de toekomst maar zeer fantasy doe het wel niet echt aanvoelen,
Alles is beschreven alsof het normaal is voor iedereen en als lezer ga je daar zeker in mee,
Alles word goed omschreven qua omgeving en handelingen,
Karakters
De personages zijn qua karakter niet echt overdreven uitgewerkt, Moeilijk in te schatten hoe ze zich verder zouden gedragen in het verhaal,
Slot
Het einde is dan weer verrassend goed uitgewerkt en zet een klein kiertje open voor het volgende boek, Je voelt dat er een vervolg zal komen maar merkt ook dat het verhaal niet volledig afgesloten word,
Conclusie
Een boek die echt aandacht vergt bij het lezen om het verhaal goed te kunnen volgen,
Easy read but couldn't put it down, Want to see how M g and Lief fair in net force and if they will eventually join it, Megan and Leif play a computer game that has some player "bounce", One player was almost killed, Megan and Leif are asked to go into the game and try to find out who is doing the "bounce" In un modo dove la realtà virtuale sembra più reale della realtà stessa, un gioco di ruolo ad ambientazione fantasy appassiona molte persone.
I problemi iniziano quando il gioco viene preso troppo seriamente da qualcuno che inizia una serie di "espulsioni" di alcuni personaggi,
Le prime espulsioni vengono effettuate coi "classici" metodi informatici: virus, troyan ecc, Ma quando si passa ai mezzi fisici, distruzione di proprietà privata e tentato omicidio, la Net Force inizia ad indagare sull'accaduto chiedendo a due ragazzi della sezione "Explorers", già giocatori, di iniziare a fare domande a riguardo.
Computer savvy teens, a war game gone awry, and good oldfashioned intrigue are the elements of The Deadliest Game, a highoctane episode in Tom Clancy's wildly popular teen series Net Force.
Clancy and coauthor Steve Pieczenik envision a futuristic society where people enliven their dull lives with intense virtual experiences, One of the most favored of these virtual realities is a medieval war game called Sarxos, Players leave their physical bodies at home while an implant in their head carries them through their computer to the virtual Dominion of Sarxos, a land where they may be anyone from a reigning warlord to a practicing hedgewizard.
But when players who are winning too many battles in Sarxos start getting stalked and attacked in the real world, it becomes clear that one player has begun taking the game far too seriously.
I knew it was ghostwritten of course, but hadn't known when I read it that I was reading a book written by the author of another favorite book of mine, sitelinkSo You Want to Be a Wizard.
Inth grade, I had a troublesome relationship for a time with an English teacher, which I won't delve too deeply into, One day, after being told to sit facing the corner of the room during class, I picked up The Deadliest Game from a stack of what I'm guessing were lost or forgotten books.
I'd never read anything of Tom Clancy's, and this had a nice ring to itvirtual worlds, fantasy escapes, exactly what I needed that day, I stole the book and brought it with me on a camping trip into the mountains of New Mexico, I read the rest of the book in two nights in my tent, with only the light from my headlamp to see by, completely enclosed by my sleeping bag and surrounded by freshly fallen snow.
This book is light reading, yes, but it's a delight, I highly recommend it, especially when you're looking for a book to stuff into your pack before a weekend in the woods, I liked this when I read it at like, I'm sure it's lame as hell now, The idea of two people investigating a mystery from within a VR video game appealed to me enough that I was somewhat able to overlook what a poorly structured, sloppily written book this was, even by YA standards.
I have to admit, I felt deeply invested in figuring out who the bad guy was, even though that particular revelation turned out to be anticlimatic as heck.
Still, the VR game made for an interesting setting, even though the mechanics of the game were pure nonsense, As someone who doesn't even own a smartphone, I hope we never reach a point in society where kids spend half their lives plugged into their computers like voluntary prisoners of the Matrix.
Много приятна трилърscifiновела, която се чете много бързо и екшънът е на мах. Малко напомня "Играч Първи, приготви се" или поскоро обратното, все пак "Компютърна полиция" е отва година: пак имаме виртуална реалностигра, в която хората бягат от гадното си ежедневие, пак има сили, опитващи се да използват играта в свои цели, но тук нещата се следят от въпросната компютърна полиция, която пази играчите. Weak attempt at fantasy writing
Millions of people participate in the virtual reality game of Sarxos, At any time participants can enter, by logging into a pc via an implanted connection device, the wonderful world of Sarxos, where you can eat, drink, sleep and above all fight with opponents.
Sarxos is the ideal escape from the daily troubles, But for some people this escape has become quite addictive, But suddenly strange things are happening: active players are being assaulted during their daily nonSarxos life, Megan O'Malley, a joyful teenager, is asked by the Net Force agency to check things out, Because she is a frequent player noone will notice that she has another mission at hand, at least that is was she thinks,
If you drop the name of Tom Clancy you automatically thing of high profile technothrillers, so when Clancy and Steve Pieczenik are pulled together to write a book for adolescents some clear expectations are raised.
Sadly enough the technothriller aspect is kept to a minimum in The Deadliest Game, Indeed it concerns a virtual reality game, but most of the plot is being build inside the game without using too much using the concept of virtual reality.
It is as if the players are being ported into a game and that game becomes a story on its own, Nothing wrong with that, was is not for the fact that that story quickly becomes tedious and boring, It is an attempt at a fantasy story, but does not succeed to exploit the power of fantasy, To say it boldly: if ever that game became commercially available, I would certainly not think about buying it, Good plot at first you don't know whats going till you keep reading then you find out you also find out, Nablz. gestopt met lezen . niet mijn smaak. Really hard to get started, Finally found a Clancy that I didn't enjoy from cover to cover, Diane Duane has been a writer of science fiction, fantasy, TV and film for than forty years, Besides thes creation of the Young Wizards fantasy series for which shes best known, the Middle Kingdoms epic fantasy series, and numerous stand alone fantasy or science fiction novels, her career has included extensive work in the Star Trek TM universe, and many scripts for live action and animated TV series on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as work in comics and computer games.
She has spent a fair amount of time on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has picked up various awards and award nominations here and there.
She lives in County Wicklow, in Ireland, with her husband of than thirty years, the screenwriter and novel Diane Duane has been a writer of science fiction, fantasy, TV and film for than forty years.
Besides the's creation of
the Young Wizards fantasy series for which she's best known, the "Middle Kingdoms" epic fantasy series, and numerous stand alone fantasy or science fiction novels, her career has included extensive work in the Star Trek TM universe, and many scripts for live action and animated TV series on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as work in comics and computer games.
She has spent a fair amount of time on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has picked up various awards and award nominations here and there.
She lives in County Wicklow, in Ireland, with her husband of than thirty years, the screenwriter and novelist Peter Morwood, Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "RunwayLeft, Hold For Clearance.
"From her official website sitelink,
Not giving up on the series, just not enamored with this volume, My first but hopefully not last read book from this author, Great way to describe scenarios and characters so you can get caught with the story, and of course the unsuspected twist of events and the way the climax gets into you is amazing.
Het dodelijkste spel geschreven door Tom Clancy en Steve Pieczenik, Het eerste deel van de Netforce explorers
Plot
De start is wat moeilijk om in te komen maar gaandeweg betert dit wel,
Het verhaal speelt zich af in de toekomst maar zeer fantasy doe het wel niet echt aanvoelen,
Alles is beschreven alsof het normaal is voor iedereen en als lezer ga je daar zeker in mee,
Alles word goed omschreven qua omgeving en handelingen,
Karakters
De personages zijn qua karakter niet echt overdreven uitgewerkt, Moeilijk in te schatten hoe ze zich verder zouden gedragen in het verhaal,
Slot
Het einde is dan weer verrassend goed uitgewerkt en zet een klein kiertje open voor het volgende boek, Je voelt dat er een vervolg zal komen maar merkt ook dat het verhaal niet volledig afgesloten word,
Conclusie
Een boek die echt aandacht vergt bij het lezen om het verhaal goed te kunnen volgen,
Easy read but couldn't put it down, Want to see how M g and Lief fair in net force and if they will eventually join it, Megan and Leif play a computer game that has some player "bounce", One player was almost killed, Megan and Leif are asked to go into the game and try to find out who is doing the "bounce" In un modo dove la realtà virtuale sembra più reale della realtà stessa, un gioco di ruolo ad ambientazione fantasy appassiona molte persone.
I problemi iniziano quando il gioco viene preso troppo seriamente da qualcuno che inizia una serie di "espulsioni" di alcuni personaggi,
Le prime espulsioni vengono effettuate coi "classici" metodi informatici: virus, troyan ecc, Ma quando si passa ai mezzi fisici, distruzione di proprietà privata e tentato omicidio, la Net Force inizia ad indagare sull'accaduto chiedendo a due ragazzi della sezione "Explorers", già giocatori, di iniziare a fare domande a riguardo.
Computer savvy teens, a war game gone awry, and good oldfashioned intrigue are the elements of The Deadliest Game, a highoctane episode in Tom Clancy's wildly popular teen series Net Force.
Clancy and coauthor Steve Pieczenik envision a futuristic society where people enliven their dull lives with intense virtual experiences, One of the most favored of these virtual realities is a medieval war game called Sarxos, Players leave their physical bodies at home while an implant in their head carries them through their computer to the virtual Dominion of Sarxos, a land where they may be anyone from a reigning warlord to a practicing hedgewizard.
But when players who are winning too many battles in Sarxos start getting stalked and attacked in the real world, it becomes clear that one player has begun taking the game far too seriously.
Enter teen cybersleuths Meg and Leif, experienced Sarxos players, As members of the Net Force Explorers, a teen auxiliary of the cybercrimestopping Net Force, Meg and Leif start questioning characters in the alternate reality, Even when their boss instructs them to stop, they stay hot on the trail of the online Sarxian player who is "bouncing" any threatening opponent out of the game.
But time is running out in the search for the online criminal, and Meg and Leif may find themselves the next bouncees!
In Net Force, Tom Clancy has created a cyberthrilling series that will transition into the next millennium with ease.
The breathless action and abrupt plot transitions between the real world and virtual reality will fascinate teen computer fiends and young video gamers alike, Agesand older Jennifer Hubert
I knew it was ghostwritten of course, but hadn't known when I read it that I was reading a book written by the author of another favorite book of mine, sitelinkSo You Want to Be a Wizard.
Inth grade, I had a troublesome relationship for a time with an English teacher, which I won't delve too deeply into, One day, after being told to sit facing the corner of the room during class, I picked up The Deadliest Game from a stack of what I'm guessing were lost or forgotten books.
I'd never read anything of Tom Clancy's, and this had a nice ring to itvirtual worlds, fantasy escapes, exactly what I needed that day, I stole the book and brought it with me on a camping trip into the mountains of New Mexico, I read the rest of the book in two nights in my tent, with only the light from my headlamp to see by, completely enclosed by my sleeping bag and surrounded by freshly fallen snow.
This book is light reading, yes, but it's a delight, I highly recommend it, especially when you're looking for a book to stuff into your pack before a weekend in the woods, I liked this when I read it at like, I'm sure it's lame as hell now, The idea of two people investigating a mystery from within a VR video game appealed to me enough that I was somewhat able to overlook what a poorly structured, sloppily written book this was, even by YA standards.
I have to admit, I felt deeply invested in figuring out who the bad guy was, even though that particular revelation turned out to be anticlimatic as heck.
Still, the VR game made for an interesting setting, even though the mechanics of the game were pure nonsense, As someone who doesn't even own a smartphone, I hope we never reach a point in society where kids spend half their lives plugged into their computers like voluntary prisoners of the Matrix.
Много приятна трилърscifiновела, която се чете много бързо и екшънът е на мах. Малко напомня "Играч Първи, приготви се" или поскоро обратното, все пак "Компютърна полиция" е отва година: пак имаме виртуална реалностигра, в която хората бягат от гадното си ежедневие, пак има сили, опитващи се да използват играта в свои цели, но тук нещата се следят от въпросната компютърна полиция, която пази играчите. Weak attempt at fantasy writing
Millions of people participate in the virtual reality game of Sarxos, At any time participants can enter, by logging into a pc via an implanted connection device, the wonderful world of Sarxos, where you can eat, drink, sleep and above all fight with opponents.
Sarxos is the ideal escape from the daily troubles, But for some people this escape has become quite addictive, But suddenly strange things are happening: active players are being assaulted during their daily nonSarxos life, Megan O'Malley, a joyful teenager, is asked by the Net Force agency to check things out, Because she is a frequent player noone will notice that she has another mission at hand, at least that is was she thinks,
If you drop the name of Tom Clancy you automatically thing of high profile technothrillers, so when Clancy and Steve Pieczenik are pulled together to write a book for adolescents some clear expectations are raised.
Sadly enough the technothriller aspect is kept to a minimum in The Deadliest Game, Indeed it concerns a virtual reality game, but most of the plot is being build inside the game without using too much using the concept of virtual reality.
It is as if the players are being ported into a game and that game becomes a story on its own, Nothing wrong with that, was is not for the fact that that story quickly becomes tedious and boring, It is an attempt at a fantasy story, but does not succeed to exploit the power of fantasy, To say it boldly: if ever that game became commercially available, I would certainly not think about buying it, Good plot at first you don't know whats going till you keep reading then you find out you also find out, Nablz. gestopt met lezen . niet mijn smaak. Really hard to get started, Finally found a Clancy that I didn't enjoy from cover to cover, Diane Duane has been a writer of science fiction, fantasy, TV and film for than forty years, Besides thes creation of the Young Wizards fantasy series for which shes best known, the Middle Kingdoms epic fantasy series, and numerous stand alone fantasy or science fiction novels, her career has included extensive work in the Star Trek TM universe, and many scripts for live action and animated TV series on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as work in comics and computer games.
She has spent a fair amount of time on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has picked up various awards and award nominations here and there.
She lives in County Wicklow, in Ireland, with her husband of than thirty years, the screenwriter and novel Diane Duane has been a writer of science fiction, fantasy, TV and film for than forty years.
Besides the's creation of
the Young Wizards fantasy series for which she's best known, the "Middle Kingdoms" epic fantasy series, and numerous stand alone fantasy or science fiction novels, her career has included extensive work in the Star Trek TM universe, and many scripts for live action and animated TV series on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as work in comics and computer games.
She has spent a fair amount of time on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has picked up various awards and award nominations here and there.
She lives in County Wicklow, in Ireland, with her husband of than thirty years, the screenwriter and novelist Peter Morwood, Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "RunwayLeft, Hold For Clearance.
"From her official website sitelink,