The Game of Worlds
About this ebook
Earth is a utopia in the year 2347. Crime, disease, and war are no more. Humanity can travel far and wide through space. But when crisis strikes, the adults are powerless to help. Twenty-fourth-century teenagers are smart and willing, but they’ll need help from Operation Hourglass. With time-yank portals, humanity can search through the past to find teens with the necessary qualities to handle whatever trouble comes their way . . .
In 1999, Adam O’Connor keeps ending up in trouble. After his latest dumb stunt, he’s facing suspension—only to get yanked into the future to face something much worse—a diplomatic meeting between humans and the warlike K’Lugu and Devlins. With the help of a twenty-fourth-century girl, a boy from 1938 Germany, and an enslaved child from 1883 Brazil, Adam must find a way to maintain peace, or there’s sure to be interstellar war.
Maybe that school suspension looks pretty nice right about now . . .
Winner of the Hal Clement Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction NovelAbout the author
David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.
