Bzrk

* Grant, who showed a flair for grandiose conceptual gambits in his Gone series, here goes big by going small. With science as soft as pudding (though, really, who cares pudding is delicious), he envisions nanotechnology so advanced that brains can be rewired, memories manipulated, and senses hacked by robots and gene-spliced creatures the size of dust mites. A war between two ultra-secretive, competing ideologies one championing free will, the other promising enforced happiness is being fought down in the meat, and Grant gleefully exposes the biological ickiness of the body going about its everyday business in paranoia-inducing scenes of nanobots scuttling across spongy brain matter or plunging probes into optic nerves. At the same time, he doles out eviscerating loads of violence on the macro level as two teens are enlisted to help stop a maniacal baddie and his team of twitchers, who are planning to infiltrate the heads of the world s most powerful nations. With simmering pots of sexual tension, near-nonstop action, and the threat of howling madness or brain-melting doom around every corpuscular corner, Grant s new series is off to a breathless, bombastic start. - "Booklist, "Starred Review " YA fiction at it s best. It's a combination science fiction/adventure/thriller all written brilliantly to entice the reader into a terrifying world. Examiner.com Squeamish as I am, Grant has me hooked with the compelling characters that populate the Go "BZRK" storyworld. Michael Anderson, "WIRED" magazine Grant utilizes contemporary themes and memorable characters, along with the possibilities of emerging technology to craft aningenious world not too far removed from our own. The intelligent presentation will likely appeal to a broad audience. PopCultureGuy If you are anything like me then "BZRK" will blow your mind. "BZRK" is very different from pretty much any YA book out there at the moment, and the closest I can come to expressing how itis continuing to play on my mind almost two weeks later, is to liken it to William Gibson's "Neuromancer" which had a similar effect on me many years ago. "BZRK" is a gamechanger for YA literature. The Book Zone This novel is full of the intricacies of the human body and non-stop action on all fronts. An intricately written science fiction thriller, "BZRK" offers an in-depthlook into a war raging deep within the human body. "Deseret News "" Praise for "Gone," by Michael Grant: An ALA Popular Paperback for Young Adults "This intense, marvelously plotted, paced, and characterized story will immediately garner comparisons to Lord of the Flies...A potent mix of action and thoughtfulness-centered around good and evil, courage and cowardice-renders this a tour-de-force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless." -" Booklist ""If Stephen King had written LORD OF THE FLIES, it might have been a little like this...Excited to see where [Grant] will take [the reader] with this new series." - "Voya""