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  • By: Dan Wells
  • Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez
  • Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Balzer + Bray
  • Publish date: February 14, 2017
  • Language: English
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Ones and Zeroes Audiobook Summary

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.

Overworld. It’s more than just the world’s most popular e-sport–for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it’s a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible.

Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, this could mean anything–a chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems–rife with corruption, infighting, and danger–and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.

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Ones and Zeroes Audiobook Narrator

Roxanne Hernandez is the narrator of Ones and Zeroes audiobook that was written by Dan Wells

Dan Wells is the author of the Mirador series (Bluescreen, Ones and Zeroes, and Active Memory), as well as the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series–the first book of which, I Am Not a Serial Killer, has been made into a major motion picture. He has been nominated for the Campbell Award and has won a Hugo Award and three Parsec Awards for his podcast Writing Excuses. He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books, and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child. You can find out more online at www.thedanwells.com.

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Ones and Zeroes Full Details

Narrator Roxanne Hernandez
Length 11 hours 53 minutes
Author Dan Wells
Publisher Balzer + Bray
Release date February 14, 2017
ISBN 9780062661258

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The publisher of the Ones and Zeroes is Balzer + Bray. The imprint is Balzer + Bray. It is supplied by Balzer + Bray. The ISBN-13 is 9780062661258.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Udy

August 19, 2020

Edit: I'm gonna bring this up to 5 stars because I loved Fang so much. "I like my shell." She is my favorite character and I will die protecting her. I want more of her.4.5 stars—this book made me cry, it’s so good. This series is odd because it balances so many things. It’s one part slice of life-y, one part intense cyberpunk thriller, and one part emotional friendship arc (i.e. the central theme is how good friends these 3-5 girls—depending on how you count—are), and it works so well! The characters are not your typical super damaged protagonists, but just normal kids who are into video games and dating and clubbing, who are also saving the city multiple times with their absurd knowledge of programming. Overall, I fucking love this series, and I wish there were more than 3 books.

Jessica

April 15, 2017

Cherry Dogs forever!This was an excellent, excellent heist story, combined with a sports story, combined with a timely meditation on urban decay, classism, and the perils of living in a corporate-controlled society.So, you know, typical Dan Wells kiddie fare.Also, some seriously snappy dialogue, more of these characters I adore, and an endless string of Your Mom jokes that I can't believe Dan wrote, and I can't believe I laughed at.

Nicola

May 29, 2022

Another great book in the Mirador series! Gaming, food, VR and action. What's not to love?

Kara-karina

February 10, 2017

This is absolutely glorious series for the lovers of anything to do with computerised dystopian societies, and this one was also a highly believable one.Both Bluescreen and Ones & Zeroes left me buzzing high on adrenaline with their fast-paced, riveting stories and fantastic characters.In a strange twist when Marisa is trying to hack a major Internet provider to find Grendel, she gets mixed up with revolutionaries who are attempting to take the whole mega-corp down at the same time.As it happens, the same corporation is destroying Marisa's neighbourhood and the livelihood of her parents, so when her Overworld team, Cherry Dogs, is invited to play in a tournament they host, it' a perfect chance to infiltrate their closed network from within. The end result is a heart-pounding and intense ride with so much at stake. "There are people who matter, and people who don't. There are people who act, and people who react; people who change things, and people who get changed. The most important thing in the entire world, n the entirety of human experience, is that you can choose which kind of person you are. I want to be the kind that makes a change."Sahara, Marisa and Anja are finally joined by Fang and Jaya who fly over to LA for the tournament, and it's super fun! The tournament itself is fabulously entertaining m and Cherry Dogs majorly kick butt there, especially Fang who was EPIC.However, the girls have to do so much more than win. Add to it trying to hack the network WHILE playing and saving a captive without getting caught.... and it's a hell of a game to watch.I loved not only the main heroines but the wonderfully crafted secondary characters. None of them ever felt like cardboard, they were complex, alive and full of secrets.Overall, highly recommended, one of my top reads of this year!* * *Это превосходная серия для любителей компьютеризованого общества, да и сама дистопия очень хорошо вырисована, и в неё легко верится.Как Синий Экран, так и Единицы и Нули оставили меня в маниакально-лихорадочном настроении с зашкаливающим адреналином, настолько они меня держали в напряжении.По странной иронии судьбы, когда Мариза хакирует большого интернет-провайдера, чтобы найти Гренделя, она сталкивается с хакерами-революционерами, которые пытаются скомпроментировать этот мега-корп изнутри. Так же корпорация постепенно дестабилизирует район Мирадор в котором живёт семья Маризы, поднимая цены на интернет, без которого невозможно существовать в этом мире.Когда команда Маризы "Вишнёвые Собаки" приглашена поучаствовать в турнире игры Оверворлд, Анья, Мариза, Сахара, Джайя и Фанг решают инфильтровать закрытую связь мега-корпа, который его как раз и проводит. Им не только необходимо выиграть главный приз, чтобы спасти бизнес родителей Маризы от банкротства, но и освободить одного из революционеров, начать мятеж и найти компромат на мегакорп, - и всё это во время игры!В общем, скучать читателю не приходится. Главные героини выписаны шикарно. Особенно эпичен характер Фанг в Вишнёвых Собаках! Да и второстепенные персонажи превосходны - От Алэна до Омара.Описание игры и хакерства, стремительность происходящего пересекаются с экшном в реальной жизни и до конца держат в напряжении. В общем, очень понравилось! Рекомендую без колебаний как одну из лучших книг года.

Stacy

August 29, 2016

Dan Wells has done it again, this series is a great as the Partials and one that I could read over and over. The world in the Mirador series is a scary one, almost everyone has a computer implanted in their head, and you can only imagine the issues that can come from such a set up. But like today, most of the young people think nothing about this being a part of their lives. Marisa and her team Cherry Dogs, live for the online game Overworld, hoping to make it to the pro's and a better life, especially for Marisa's family. When they are invited to play a charity event, it is Marisa's chance to also find some answers to why she was in a car accident that cost her her arm. Chased by a security guard that reminds me of the terminator and being asked to help take down the megacorp that is making lives in Mirador a living hell, makes this book one that you will not want to put down. My one complaint is that since this is an ARC and not due out till 2017, I have that much longer to wait for the third book. Mark your calendar and read the first book while you wait, if you are not already a Dan Wells fan, you soon will be. Happy reading!!!!

Braulio

May 24, 2019

Aunque creo que Bluescreen pudo haber quedado como un libro autoconclusivo, doy gracias a Wells por hacerlo trilogía y es que en esta secuela al igual que en el primer libro la manera de narrar la historia, así como la historia como tal son maravillosas, Dan Wells sabe como hacer una historia y narr

Lieblingsleseplatz

December 25, 2017

Los Angeles im Jahr 2050: Overworld ist das beliebteste Virtual-Reality-Spiel der Welt. Als Marisa Carneseca die Einladung erhält, an dem exklusiven Overworld-Turnier Forward Motion teilzunehmen, ist sie begeistert. Für Marisa ist dies die einmalige Chance, sich als professionelle Spielerin zu etablieren und ihrer Familie finanziell unter die Arme zu greifen. Doch Forward Motion hat auch eine dunkle Seite – und die ist gefährlicher, als Marisa es sich vorgestellt hat. Das Turnier wird beherrscht von Machtkämpfen und Korruption. Als Marisa dem mysteriösen Untergrundkämpfer Alain begegnet, wird ihr klar: Die einzige Möglichkeit, lebend aus diesem Spiel herauszukommen, ist, es zu gewinnen … (Quelle: Piper)Unsere Welt 2050 ist beinahe Flächendeckend technologisiert. Fast nichts funktioniert ohne Technik – Verkehr, Restaurants, Industrie – alles wird durch Roboter – sogenannte Nulis geregelt. Der Mensch ist beinahe überflüssig geworden. Dafür hat er mehr Zeit, online zu sein. Die Menschen tragen Djinnis – quasi implantierte Smartphones mit denen sie immer und überall nur durch ein Blinzeln durch das www surfen.Marisa ist erst 17 und spielt bereits in Wells‘ erstem Roman rund um Mirador „Bluescreen“ die Hauptrolle. Sie versucht verzweifelt herauszufinden, was hinter dem mysteriösen Unfall steckt, der sie als Kind ihren Arm gekostet hat. (Zum Glück ist die Technologie bereits so weit, dass die einen voll funktionstüchtigen Ersatz trägt) So begibt sie sich auch in „Overworld“ wieder auf die Suche nach Grendel und seiner Verbindung zum Megakonzern KT Sigan- von dem sie sich Antworten erhofft.Ich habe „Bluescreen“ nicht vorher gelesen (warum eigentlich?) – aber das ging auch prima ohne. Ich fühlte mich ausreichend informiert und hatte keinerlei Schwierigkeiten, sofort voll in die Handlung einzusteigen. Das ist auch nötig, denn Wells schreibt so temporeich und fesselnd, dass man nur so über die Seiten fliegt …Es gibt 3 Haupt-Handlungsstränge in Overworld:1. Marisa versucht mehr über ihren Unfall im Firmennetz von KT Sigan herauszufinden, denn dort hin führte ihre letzte Spur bei der Suche nach Grendel (bei Bluescreen).2. Die Cherry Dogs – Marisas Team nimmt als Aussenseiter am von KT Sigan organisierten Overworld Turnier teil, um das Restaurant von Marisas Eltern zu retten das unter den Folgen der Preispolitik des Konzerns zu zerbrechen droht und hat da mit fiesen Manipulationen und alten Feinden zu kämpfen3. Widerstandskämpfer lehnen sich gegen die Machenschaften von KT Sigan auf – allen voran der extrem gut aussehende Alain. Er versucht mittels Industriespionage den Konzern zu vernichten und die Menschen von der Diktatur derselben zu befreien.Am Anfang klappt das Zusammenspiel der einzelnen Stränge noch nicht so gut. Oft denkt man, ein Thema sei komplett vergessen. Erst als endlich nach zwei Dritteln des Buches das Overworld Turnier beginnt, kommen alle Themen zusammen und die Handlungsstränge verweben sich perfekt zu einem. Man kommt vor lauter Aufregung gar nicht mehr zu was anderem.Von der ersten Seite an war ich begeistert von dem Spiel Overworld.  Ich habe früher auch gern Computer Spiele gespielt. Zwar nie ein Second Life oder Ego Shooter Game, aber die Virtuelle Realität hat auf mich schon immer eine ganz besondere Faszination ausgeübt. Das Turnier habe ich mir daher fantastisch vorgestellt. Doch leider erleben wir in 3/4 des Buches nur ein einziges Übungsspiel. Hier war ich überrascht, dass Overworld gar kein online Rollenspiel ist, hatte ich aufgrund der Avatare und Fertigkeiten eigentlich erwartet. Schade – das Spiel kommt viel zu kurz. Auch während des Turniers ist das Spiel an sich nur Kulisse. Dabei ist es doch der Buchtitel…Interessant finde ich, dass in diesem Setting der Internetzugang als Grundbedürfnis angesehen wird und sogar ein Wohltätigkeitsturnier veranstaltet wird, um den Gebieten mit schlechter Internetanbindung zu helfen. Und das alles, während die Probleme unser heutigen Zeit wie Hunger, Armut und Epidemien immer noch fort bestehen – ja sogar noch viel schlimmer sind durch die Arbeitslosigkeit, die die Roboter mit sich brachten…Wie gut, dass wenigstens die Cherry Dogs noch halbwegs vernünftig und kritisch denken können:„Er redet so, als sei ein ruckelndes Videospiel das Gleiche wie ein Einbruch der Weltgesundheit.“ (S.27)Sowieso – Die Cherry Dogs – jedes einzelne der Mädchen dieses verrückten Teams ist absolut genial! Das erste Zusammentreffen der Cherry Dogs in der realen Welt fängt sehr gut die Gefühle der Mädchen ein – hattet ihr schon mal ein Bild Date mit Jemandem, den ihr nur aus dem Netzt kanntet? Ich schon – mit einer Gruppe Frauen, die wie ich die Vegan for Fit Challenge gemacht hatten. Man freut sich und ist doch unsicher. In der virtuellen Umgebung kann man sein, wie man es schon immer mal wollte – in der Realität sind wir nur WIR – und es gehört Mut dazu, zu sich zu stehen. Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass das 2050 noch eine viel größere Herausforderung sein wird, wenn die virtuelle Welt realer scheint als die Wirklichkeit…„Die Ganze Welt ist eigentlich nur eine Ansammlung von Einsen und Nullen. (…) Du musst Dich entscheiden, wer du sein willst. (…) Wenn Du Dich nicht entscheidest, dann entscheidet die Welt für Dich. Und sie entscheidet sich immer für die Null.“ (S.134)Sahara, Marisa, Anja, Jaya ud Fang sie alle kommen aus unterschiedlichen Kulturen, glauben an verschiedene Religionen oder die Abwesenheit derselben, sind unterschiedlich temperamentvoll oder verrückt – Sie alle haben ihre Stärken und Schwächen – aber eins haben sie gemeinsam – sie sind die besten Freundinnen – nicht nur virtuell, sondern auch im echten Leben! Ich freue mich auf viele weitere Abenteuer der Cherry Dogs – zumal ja viele Fragen offen bleiben am Schluss von „Overworld“ …Man muss schon technikaffin sein um „Overworld“ voll genießen zu können – und alte Rollenspiel Erfahrungen sind in jedem Falle nützlich. Aber zur Entwarnung: es gibt ein Glossar am Ende des Buches.„Overworld“ ist viel mehr Wirtschaftsthriller als reine Dystopie oder Science Fiction – das allerdings genial mit der technologisierten Welt der Zukunft verknüpft! Ich vergebe 4 von 5 Lieblingslesesessel für geniale Werk. Einen Sessel ziehe ich ab, weil ich gern mehr in das Spiel Overworld eingetaucht wäre und ich zumindest einen Lösungsansatz von Marisas Problem geliefert bekommen hätte. Aber ich freue mich schon auf die Fortsetzung!

Graff

April 03, 2021

This was a lot of fun. It was like Ready Player One. Marisa grwoing up. Taking on responsibility and doing it for her friends and the Cherry Dogs.I will be reading the final book in the trilogy next week. I will go slower. This is a really good story.

Elisa

December 26, 2018

Super fun, fast action with lots of hacking and silliness too. Cute, fun, and high stakes.

Clint

November 13, 2022

Better than the first! Love these characters. Great dialogue and great story.

Jennifer

September 08, 2018

It's rare for a sequel to surpass the first installment of a series - stop for a minute and see if anything other than The Empire Strikes Back comes to mind - but with Ones and Zeroes Dan Wells has done the near impossible and crafted a follow up that's not only true to the characters we met in the original novel but even more tightly crafted and fast paced.Part of that is the complexity of the set-up itself. The opening section of Bluescreen was spent establishing our fantastically diverse group of main characters as wannabe-pro VR gamer girls in a near-future Los Angeles where even the poor have internet jacked directly into their brains; once you've bought into that world, everything else flows pretty easily. Having wiped out the Bluescreen virus in the last novel, protagonist Marisa is focusing on tracking down the hacker who knows the secrets behind the car crash that cost her her arm. Distractions abound, however, in the forms of an invite to an international Overworld (read: gaming) competition and a disturbingly attractive net-neutrality freedom fighter named Alain. And, yes, I did just use the phrase net neutrality freedom fighter.That, in fact, is one of the three main things I love about Ones and Zeroes: that, at its heart, it's dystopian teen fiction about equality of access to the interwebs. One wonders if Dan Wells was watching Last Week Tonight back in 2014 and decided to be the biggest damn flying troll in John Oliver's squad. As if the cunning extrapolation of a present-day real-world issue to its possible dystopian conclusion weren't enough to earn my undying affections, Wells proceeds to devotes the majority of his book to two intricate heists (the latter combined with a rescue mission) executed by six teenage girls in such stone-fucking-cold fashion that it would put the Ocean's crew to shame. So, yeah, now we're at dystopian net neutrality heist novel.But the thing that has me absolutely smitten is that this book is that it's all about the ladies. Sure, there's the aforementioned bit of male pretty, but he's little more than a sidenote; hell, even the antagonists in the novel are female, and any men are really just there to move the plot along. The real story in Ones and Zeroes is the strong relationships among the four main female characters, who work as a team inside and outside Overworld. They're hackers and coders and general all-around badasses who look out for each other and scam multinational corporations while still rocking their party dresses.So feminist dystopian net neutrality heist novel? All I can say is: Game on.

Rechan

March 06, 2017

Everything I enjoyed about the first one (YA Cyperpunk, Overworld, cute dialogue, clever characters being clever), with less of what I didn't care for (family drama and romance). Although for an elaborate heist, it didn't quite feel heist-y enough at the end. Still, I can't wait for the next.

T.K.

February 15, 2017

More delightful scifi suspense and gaming with a good twist at the end; wish there was more of this series! 4.5 stars

Fer Bañuelos ✨

June 08, 2019

*4.5*Si te gusta Warcorss, TIENES QUE LEER ESTE LIBRO Y ESTA SERIE. No entiendo cómo es posible que esta serie no tenga más reconocimiento porque es una fregonería.Nuevamente, las cherry dogs se han ganado mi corazón. Dan Wells creo un perfecto cast de personajes extremadamente diversos que con cada página que lea de ellas me enamoró más. En este segundo libro tenemos el primer encuentro de todas y fue de lo mejor de la vida. Ver a las 5 en un mismo lugar hizo de este libro algo mucho mejor.La trama del torneo de realidad virtual me fascino demasiado. Mucha gente podrá decir que es demasiado similar a Warcorss y tengo que decir dos cosas al respecto:1- Son muy diferentes en el hecho que las cosas que rodean a ambos torneos son demasiado diferentes.2- Este libro salió antes que Warcross.Fue toda una travesía leer lo que sucedía y hubieron partes que me empezaron a dar ansiedad porque estaba ocurriendo mucho, era una carrera contra reloj y yo solo estaba LIVING con lo que les estaba sucediendo a las cheery dogs.El misterio de este segundo fue muy muy bueno y me mantuvo pegado hasta terminarlo. Me he dado cuenta que el autor tiene un talento para crear dudas, para hacerte cuestionar absolutamente todo, y funciona muy bien con el tipo de libros que son la trilogía del mirador.Estoy muy emocionado por seguir leyendolos y ya quiero ver como va a terminar todo este rollo.

Erika

February 14, 2017

I loved the second installment of the Mirador series. Ones and Zeroes brings us more info about each of the Cherry Dogs and their adventures. Also why not take on a megacorp trying to strangle a utility that has become a absolute necessity?Dan Well's found a clever way to bring a diverse group of international friends all into the same room. I read Bluescreen in a day and the same has happened with Ones and Zeroes. I can't wait for the next book.Also I think I even spotted the elusive Grendel in this one. (Anyone else?)

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