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Original title
Boy in a White Room - Girl In a Strange Land
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Thriller / suspense fictionArtificial intelligenceChildren’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers
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Boy in a White Room

by Olsberg, Karl

* A thought-provoking thriller that echoes in your mind!

* The novel focuses on highly relevant and current topics as Virtuality and Artificial Intelligence but also poses reoccurring philosophical questions about identity and what makes us human

* Written by Spiegel bestselling author Karl Olsberg

* Sequel: Girl in a Strange Land!

* Surprising All Age bestseller! 3 reprints within the first months after publication

* Film rights sold


A white room. Bright walls. No doors. No windows. No escape. Manuel awakes without memories. He does not know who he is or how he got here. His only contact is a computer generated voice called ALICE through which he is able to access the internet. Piece by piece, Manuel finds out what happened to him and discovers something unbelievable: his body lies heavily injured in a hospital. His consciousness can only be held alive with the aid of computer technology. But is this man, who claims to be Manuel’s father, telling the truth? What is real? And who is “the real” Manuel? A gripping thriller where nothing turns out like it first seems. The novel plays with the dangers of virtual worlds and artificial intelligence. It raises fundamental philosophical questions on reality and identity. 

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Comments

“Not only is it incredibly exciting – I read the whole thing in one go – but there is philosophical depth to it. One of those books you remember for the rest of your life.”

Andreas Eschbach on Boy in a White Room

Reviews: Andreas Eschbach

Nominated for the German YA Literature Award

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“An incredibly gripping thriller that fuses the possibilities of the virtual world with philosophical questions about lies, truth, trust and identity – electrifying.”


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