Game of Tao Tie by Serena Zhang
In the near future, the effects of global warming and pollution have decimated the planet and thrown humanity into lawless chaos. The absence of national governments and borders combined with an extreme wealth gap has led to the creation of a “Global State”, a class-based hierarchical system where most of the world’s population languish in abject poverty while the wealthiest individuals congregate in remote, highly exclusive luxury resorts.
Daoming Lin has never seen rain in all his twenty-two years of life. He barely manages to support himself and his grandmother by selling simple yet brilliant inventions made from scavenged scraps on the underground market. He shares a complicated relationship with his neighbor and childhood-bully-turned-awkward-acquaintance, Baoshan Chen, who makes a meager living as a stone cutter.
When Daoming is offered the chance to participate in a top secret mission that could save the Earth – an experimental video game simulation designed to pit players against one another in order to challenge them to find a cure – one with a handsome reward attached, he jumps at the opportunity.
But when he discovers a malicious glitch in the game that threatens to destroy reality itself, he must do more than just survive if he wants to make it home. With both his realities crumbling around him, Daoming must learn to confront his fears and become his own hero before it’s too late.
GAME OF TAO TIE is a queer, young adult, dystopian sci-fi novel where READY PLAYER ONE meets SNOWPIERCER.
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