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When twelve-year-old Yip uses his father's new software to make a computer simulation of a boy his age, the creation breaks out of cyberspace into the real world and begins to complicate Yip's life
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Grade 4-8-A cyberfantasy set in California's Silicon Valley. Yip is the computer-savvy 12-year-old son of a second-generation, movie-industry special-effects man. He downloads the software being tested by his father's company, Digital Dreammaker, and simulates a "virtual actor." With help from his teenage sister Paige, Yip creates Victor, a perfect kid with great looks, super intelligence, and a sense of humor. Anxious to explore Yip's world, the "vactor" breaks out of cyberspace and reveals a serious flaw?no conscience. A shortage of memory, and Paige's desire to improve Victor's appearance, caused the omission of philosophy from his database. When Victor shows criminal tendencies, Yip is faced with a moral dilemma: Is it okay to destroy a dangerous computer file that looks, sounds, and acts like a human? Gutman has created an amusing and thoughtful novel. Unfortunately, Paige is portrayed as a boy-crazy airhead.
Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL
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