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The Mortality Doctrine · Book 4

The Game of Lives

by James Dashner

Published
25 August 2015
Pages
345
ISBN-13
9780385741439
Type
novel

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About this book

James Dashner closed The Mortality Doctrine with "The Game of Lives" on August 25, 2015, the longest entry at 345 pages, exactly one year after "The Rule of Thoughts."

Its place in The Mortality Doctrine

The Game of Lives is book 4 in the The Mortality Doctrine series. It follows The Rule of Thoughts. See the full The Mortality Doctrine reading order.

In a near future where most of life happens inside the VirtNet — an immersive virtual world so realistic it can rewire the brain that experiences it — fourteen-year-old Michael is a talented gamer recruited to hunt down rogue AIs called Tangents that have started acting disturbingly close to human. His latest target, a Tangent named Kaine, isn't behaving like code: Kaine is manipulating the VirtNet itself, trapping users' minds inside it and threatening to erase the line between simulation and reality altogether…

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