Jurassic Park fits The Hunger Games in this spectacular new high-energy, high-concept story from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Honor and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS Regular

Occur an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities combat each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Video games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive earlier than you think.

Silas Williams may be the excellent about The Games geneticist responsible for preparing the U.S. entrance into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only 1 guideline: no individual DNA is permitted in the look of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led america to the yellow metal in every previous event. But the additional countries are getting up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Video games, Silas’s employer engages an experimental supercomputer to create the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten.

The result is normally a highly specialized eliminating machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not Silas, with all his genius and knowledge, can understand the horror he previously a hand in making. No one, he worries, can anticipate the results of entrusting the take action of creation to a computer’s frosty logic.

Now Silas races to understand what the computer offers wrought, aided by a lovely xenobiologist, Vidonia João. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural power, speed, and-most disquietingly-intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific interest giving method to a most unpredicted emotion: pure terror.

Praise for The Video games

“Blends the best of Crichton and Koontz.”-Web publishers Regular (starred review)

“Outstanding . extremely like something Michael Crichton may have written . . . [a] bold mix of horror and SF . . . Expect big issues from [Ted] Kosmatka.”-Booklist (starred review)

“Kosmatka successfully captures the thrill of groundbreaking technology. . . . The pleasure of his refined, action-packed storytelling can be deepened by solid character development. This near-future SF thriller . . . seems destined for the silver screen.”-Library Journal (starred review)