The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctrine, Book One)

James Dashner

Oct 2013 · The Mortality Doctrine Book 1 · Sold by Delacorte Press

About this ebook

The world is virtual, but the danger is real in book one of the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series, the next phenomenon from the author of the Maze Runner series, James Dashner. 

Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that finally reveals how the maze was built!

   The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun it is. Why bother following the rules when it’s so easy to break them? But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And one gamer has been doing exactly that, with murderous results.
   The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And they’ve been watching Michael. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid, to the back alleys and corners of the system human eyes have never seen—and it’s possible that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.

The author who brought you the #1 New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series and two #1 movies—The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials—now brings you an electrifying adventure trilogy an edge-of-your-seat adventure that takes you into a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyber terrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares.
 
Praise for the Bestselling MORTALITY DOCTRINE series:

“Dashner takes full advantage of the Matrix-esque potential for asking ‘what is real.’” —io9.com
 
“Set in a world taken over by virtual reality gaming, the series perfectly capture[s] Dashner’s hallmarks for inventiveness, teen dialogue and an ability to add twists and turns like no other author.” —MTV.com
 
“A brilliant, visceral, gamified mash-up of The Matrix and Inception, guaranteed to thrill even the non-gaming crowd.” —Christian Science Monitor

Ratings and reviews

So much of the world was left up to the assumptions of the reader about "hackers", "coding", and gigantic virtual reality places. No worldbuilding, no explanations of what is being done or how, and none of it is even interesting or original. Sword Art Online, Ready Player One... they're so much more interesting and do away with the bullshit "the hacker named 4Chan" cop out of an actual understanding.

I picked this up as I read the Maze Runner series and enjoyed the hell out of it. Turns out that Mr. Dashner can do bad sci-fi. The descriptions of technology are just way too jarring for me. "Hacking" was some kind of video game experience, akin to the Swordfish movie. Nothing was done to make the technology believable. It's too bad, as I enjoyed the concept.

Book is good so far however I've noticed pages 131-145 are missing this isn't the first time I've purchased books on play store and pages are missing, it was the same with your maze runner series... If I purchase a book I want the entire book not bits and pieces.

About the author

James Dashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order and The Fever Code, as well as the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series: The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives. Dashner was born and raised in Georgia, but now lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains. To learn more about him and his books, visit JamesDashner.com, follow @jamesdashner on Twitter, and find dashnerjames on Instagram.