Buzz Kill
David Sosnowski
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· 8 ratings · 453 pages · Published: 28 Jan 2020
Pandora Lynch lives in Alaska with her single dad, an online therapist for Silicon Valley's brightest and cagiest Homeschooled by computer and a self-taught hacker, Pandora is about to enter high school to learn how to be normal. That's the plan at least.
NorCal runaway, George Jedson, is a hacker too - one who leaves the systems he attacks working better than before. After being scooped up by a social media giant, will George go legit - or pull off the biggest hack ever? Not even his therapist knows for sure, but maybe the headshrinker's daughter. . .
After meeting in cyberspace, the two young hackers combine their passions to conceive a brainchild named BUZZ. Can this baby AI learn to behave, or will it be like its parents and think outside the box?
With a hilarious and deeply empathetic narrative voice, this elegiac and unapologetically irreverent novel is both humorous and tragic without ever taking itself too seriously.
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