num_pages: 452
description: You are invited!Come inside and play with G.O.D.Bring your friends!Its fun!But remember the rules. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. Lose you die!With those words Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Game a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes its God. Through their phone-screens and high-tech glasses the teens realities blur with a virtual world of creeping vines smoldering torches runes glyphs gods and mythical creatures. When they accomplish a mission the game rewards them with expensive tech revenge on high-school tormentors and cash flowing from ATMs. Slaying a hydra and drawing a bloody pentagram as payment to a Greek god seem harmless at first. Fun even.But then the threatening messages start. Worship me. Obey me. Complete a mission however cruel or the game reveals their secrets and crushes their dreams. Tasks that seemed harmless at first take on deadly consequences. Mysterious packages show up at their homes. Shadowy figures start following them appearing around corners attacking them in parking garages. Who else is playing this game and how far will they go to win?And what of the games first promise: win win big lose you die? Dying in a virtual world doesnt really mean death in real lifedoes it?As Charlie and his friends try to find a way out of the game they realize theyve been manipulated into a bigger web they cant escape: an AI that learned its cruelty from watching us.God is always watching and He says when the game is done.
language: English
title: The God Game
publisher: St. Martin's Press