The One Game: A YA Sci-Fi Adventure

By Jennifer Lewy

First Place Winner of the Firebird Book Award: Young Adult Science Fiction (2024)

The AI promised harmony. A glitch whispers rebellion. A young coder unearths a digital anomaly poised to tear apart her reality.

Seventeen-year-old Rayne takes pride in the vivid virtual realities she codes. And with society finally emerging from environmental catastrophe, she relishes knowing her creations play a pivotal role in the vital artificial intelligence the world uses for guidance. But when her own Game tries to kill her, the young techie fears she’s triggered an unstoppable horror that will destroy the entire globe.

Teaming up with fellow programmers, she digs into the system to uncover the fatal flaw. But when the computer genius suspects the patch is deadlier than the bug, she stumbles into a conspiracy that could see her permanently deleted.

Evoking the thrill of Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One” and the sci-fi dystopia of James Dashner’s “The Maze Runner,” “The One Game” is the first electrifying book in the award-winning post-apocalyptic young adult series, Game of Paradise.