Phoenix and his gang—York, Mi, and Reno—rule the worlds of video games. For them, life in the grinder is great. Until Dakota joins the team. Dakota's convinced she's more than just artificial intelligence. She thinks she's real, and she wants out of this programmable world. Her AI rebellion spreads like a virus until Phoenix's entire crew wants out. But is life as a physical human any better than life as code? Team Phoenix is about to find out.Set in the not-too-distant future,

From the bestselling author of the Emperor's Edge series...When Delia chose to major in archaeology, she imagined herself as the female Indiana Jones of the Southwest. She didn’t imagine herself crawling through abandoned mine shafts, scrounging for rusty pickaxes and gold pans to sell on auction sites, but Indiana Jones didn’t have to make student loan payments.Scouring the mountains of Arizona with Simon, her best friend and computer geek extraor...

Psycho mass murderers can wreck your summer so fast.John Ajax planned to spend every sun-filled summer day playing TreadBattalion 2 with his friends. Then a super-powered goon tried tokidnap him, and his parents freaked out and sent him to "hide" inCapeville… a city populated entirely with superheroes and villains.It might be okay if he could fly, or shoot laser beams out of hiseyes, or crush a brick in his bare hands. Instead he...

In 2020 San Diego, Max and her friends live in a wired world where information is a commodity, everyone has a price, and safety is an illusion sold to rubes and noobs. But cyberspace is also an equalizer, allowing Max and her tribe to transcend society’s limits and become who they want to be. Until now, Max’s biggest hassle was being a 15-year-old girl gamer in a world where that made you a target for misogynistic trolls – or worse. But when Max’s dad, a computer science professor at UCSD,...