From the Publisher
A great action packed adventure...about how we live today, and where it might be leading us to for tomorrow” — Locus
“A thundering conclusion” — Booklist
Praise for CRASHLAND: “[A] thrilling futuristic follow-up to Twinmaker” — Booklist
Praise for CRASHLAND: “[There are] some knife-in-the-gut twists and a gasp-inducing ending.” — Kirkus Reviews
Praise for TWINMAKER: “In the masterful hands of Williams, the technology, which has eerie parallels to contemporary life, provides a solid platform for great storytelling, and teens will revel in the drama, Clair’s tenacity, and the memorable characters who discover that their utopia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.” — Booklist (starred review)
Praise for TWINMAKER: “The dangers, casualties and well-written action scenes keep tensions high. Williams marries accessibly explored moral ramifications of future technologies-a hallmark of mature science fiction—with a strong, capable teen heroine and heart-pounding action.” — Kirkus Reviews
Praise for TWINMAKER: “TWINMAKER took my breath away. A triumph of thrilling action and vivid imagination.” — Alison Goodman, author of EON and EONA
Praise for TWINMAKER: “A mind-blowing adventure about what it means to be human, and what it means to find ourselves.” — Scott Westerfeld, author of UGLIES and LEVIATHAN
Praise for TWINMAKER: “TWINMAKER asks smart questions without easy answers, and presents a future so simultaneously wonderful and terrible you can only believe in it. A thrilling, existential head trip worthy of my favorite anime, I couldn’t stop reading this book. More importantly, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.” — Garth Nix, author of the Old Kingdom series
Praise for TWINMAKER: “Compelling...handily juggles ethical debates, swift action, and a well-developed setting.” — The Horn Book
Booklist (starred review)
Praise for TWINMAKER: “In the masterful hands of Williams, the technology, which has eerie parallels to contemporary life, provides a solid platform for great storytelling, and teens will revel in the drama, Clair’s tenacity, and the memorable characters who discover that their utopia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Booklist
A thundering conclusion
The Horn Book
Praise for TWINMAKER: “Compelling...handily juggles ethical debates, swift action, and a well-developed setting.
Scott Westerfeld
Praise for TWINMAKER: “A mind-blowing adventure about what it means to be human, and what it means to find ourselves.
Alison Goodman
Praise for TWINMAKER: “TWINMAKER took my breath away. A triumph of thrilling action and vivid imagination.
Garth Nix
Praise for TWINMAKER: “TWINMAKER asks smart questions without easy answers, and presents a future so simultaneously wonderful and terrible you can only believe in it. A thrilling, existential head trip worthy of my favorite anime, I couldn’t stop reading this book. More importantly, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Locus
A great action packed adventure...about how we live today, and where it might be leading us to for tomorrow
Booklist
A thundering conclusion
Kirkus Reviews
2015-08-12
The conclusion of the teleportation-based science-fiction Twinmaker trilogy. Starting immediately where Crashland (2014) left off, this novel tosses readers right into the complicated, character-dense plot with little in the way of recap. Following the d-mat attack that obliterated all d-mat-replicated material as well as nearly everyone who traveled through it, Clair and Q have successfully uploaded themselves into the Yard, which is the backup server of villainous Ant Wallace. The Yard is a virtual world mimicking the real one and populated by people whose patterns Wallace has used (such as dupes) or people he deems important (such as powerful politicians or people he's used as leverage against his enemies). Clair immediately encounters new versions of herself and friends, replicated from the very beginning of Twinmaker (2013). But having two Clairs destabilizes the Yard, causing glitches—and the glitches are exploitable by the heroes as they flee from Wallace and other enemies. Meanwhile, outside of the Yard, the devastated Earth has some survivors—mainly, Abstainers and the few who were in protected locations, among them Clair and Q (in a borrowed body). Both in and outside of the Yard, unlikely alliances form for the battle over what humanity does next. At times the pacing is repetitive, but the characters charm. The final act is packed with surprises that make perfect sense in retrospect. A philosophical marathon. (Science fiction. 12 & up)
