Ones and Zeroes (Mirador, #2)

by Dan Wells

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.

Overworld. It’s more than just the world’s most popular e-sport—for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it’s a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible.

Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, this could mean anything—a chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems—rife with corruption, infighting, and danger—and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.

• ISBN10: 006234790X
• ISBN13: 9780062347909
• Publish Date: 23 March 2017 (first published 14 February 2017)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 7 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: Balzer and Bray
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[tweetybugshouse]

This is the exciting sequel to Bluescreen from Dan Wells.  His Mirador series is the perfect mix of action sci-fi with a touch of virtual reality video games mixed in.   Really liked that in this one we get to see more of overworld and also the dangerous part of hacking into a megacorp to try and track down the bad guy.   You get a great opportunity to find out more how the game is played and the different ways to use it to hide some pretty underhanded dark web activity.  It was a great book . 

[Joséphine]

Actual rating: 3.5 stars

Compared to Bluescreen, I didn't think Ones and Zeroes was as good. It read very clearly as a filler in a trilogy. That aside, I loved the expansion of characters, who were culturally very diverse. Communications and tech continued to be at the forefront alongside gaming, so anyone who liked Bluescreen and immediately wanted more, won't be disappointed.