![]() When 17-year-old coder Opal Tal's father, Aaron, went missing seven years earlier, she attempted to track him down by reaching out to his business partner, Howie Mendelsohn. In this near-future thriller, Ahmadi (Down and Across) questions the benefits of technology and its role in creating instant celebrity, shortening attention spans, and insidiously impacting democracy. How far will Opal go for the answers-or is it the attention-she's wanted for years? ![]() What begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control when Opal goes viral, digging her deeper into a hole of lies, hacks, and manipulation. The one she always believed might know where he went. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal's dad. Because WAVE, the world's biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her heart desires.īut she can't code her dad back into her life. ![]() Perfect for fans of Warcross and Black Mirror, Girl Gone Viral is the inventive and timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom.įor seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. "Smart, timely and riveting."- The New York Times Book Review
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