num_pages: 320
description: From Morris finalist Len Vlahos comes a contemporary sci-fi story about a boy who might not be humanfor fans of Westworld and Black Mirror.Quinn thinks hes a normal boy with an average life. That is until he finds a trail of clues the father he barely knew left behind.After Quinn unravels his fathers puzzles he wakes up ... and realizes his world was nothing more than a virtual construct. In reality hes the first fully-aware A.I. in the world part of an experiment run by a team of scientistsincluding the man he thought was his father.As the scientists continue to study him Quinns new existence becomes a waking nightmare. Determined to control his own destiny he finds allies in other teensincluding crush Sheaand plots his escape. But what does true freedom look like when youre not human?Acclaimed Morris Award finalist Len Vlahos pens a high-stakes contemporary-rooted sci-fi that asks big questions about humanity.
language: English
title: Hard Wired
publisher: Bloomsbury YA