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375 pp.
| Egmont |
July, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-1-60684-274-4$17.99
(4)
4-6
After Rufus, a piece of malware, convinces him to abandon his role in a swords-and-sorcery computer game, Noble the Slayer discovers freedom means computer chaos and leads an anti-virus rescue. Though frequent scene changes and lengthy descriptions slow the pace, characters and action are spot on as real and virtual events interplay in this quirky, part-metaphorical depiction of a computer crash from the inside.