Genius: The Game (Genius, 1) - Hardcover

Gout, Leopoldo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250045819 ISBN 13: 9781250045812

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends, 2016

Synopsis

Trust no one. Every camera is an eye. Every microphone an ear. Find me and we can stop him together.

The Game: Get ready for Zero Hour as 200 geniuses from around the world go head to head in a competition hand-devised by India's youngest CEO and visionary.

The Players:
Rex- One of the best programmers/hackers in the world, this 16-year-old Mexican-American is determined to find his missing brother.
Tunde-This14-year-old self-taught engineering genius has drawn the attention of a ruthless military warlord by single-handedly bringing electricity and internet to his small Nigerian village.
Painted Wolf-One of China's most respected activist bloggers, this mysterious 16-year-old is being pulled into the spotlight by her father's new deal with a corrupt Chinese official.

The Stakes: Are higher than you can imagine. Like life and death. Welcome to the revolution. And get ready to run.

About this title

About the Author

Leopoldo Gout, the producer behind Days of Grace, which A.O. Scott of the New York Times called "a potent and vigorous film," is also a writer, artist, and filmmaker. He hails from Mexico, studied Contemporary Art at Central Saint Martins in London, and now resides in New York City with his wife and two children.

Review

"There is simply too much here to like... Gout's characters are believable and immensely likable and their friendship serves as a delightful realistic anchor amid the fast-moving chaos." -The New York Times

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GENIUS: THE GAME
By Leopoldo Gout
Illustrated. 294 pp. Feiwel & Friends. $17.99. (Young adult; ages 12 to 18)
Fourteen-year-old Rex is a programming genius, so when his beloved older brother, Teo, vanishes, saying only that he's going on "walkabout" and he'll be gone "forever," Rex's response may not be that of a typical teenager. Rather than giving in to grief or depression, he writes a piece of incredibly advanced code designed to track and locate anyone, anywhere. The only problem is the program must be run on a quantum computer. Fortunately for Rex, these exist in the world of Leopoldo Gout's "Genius: The Game." Unfortunately for Rex, there aren't many of them, and access is highly restricted. No matter. We understand right from the beginning of this novel that the seeming futility of Rex's quest is not a barrier, it's a speed bump.
Add to this mayhem a climax full of ridiculously bumbling adults, a surprise cliffhanger ending and a villain who appears to have forgotten to bring his motivation for destroying the world, and it seems readers will have plenty of cause to complain -- except they probably won't. There is simply too much here to like. The strengths of this book more than outweigh its weaknesses, especially for readers trained by film to ignore inexplicable plot twists as long as they move at a furious pace. Gout's characters are believable and immensely likable, and their friendship serves as a delightful and realistic anchor amid the fast-moving chaos. Science and technology may take center stage in Gout's fictional Game, but it's the less flashy craft of writing that sells the story.

About this edition

• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1250045819
• ISBN 13: 9781250045812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304