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The Eye of Minds
''The Eye of Minds'' is a 2013 teenage science fiction novel by James Dashner, and the first book in ''The Mortality Doctrine'' series. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/04/10/eye-of-minds-dashner-excerpt/2069081/ )〕 The book was first published on October 8, 2013 by Delacorte Press and is set in a futuristic world where a young gamer must help stop a rogue hacker intent on causing mass destruction.
Of the novel, Dashner has stated that he did not view it as a "dystopian or post-apocalyptic tale" akin to his ''Maze Runner'' series, but he did view it as having "similarities in tone and feel and spirit to ''The Maze Runner''".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/author-qa-james-dashner-talks-eye-minds-and-maze-runner-film )〕
==Plot==
In the future, (probably in the 2120s or 2130s) mankind has developed a new interpretation of gaming set in a virtual reality known as the VirtNet. Michael and his two friends Bryson and Sarah are employed by VNS, VirtNet Security, to track down a cyber-terrorist known as Kaine who has been trapping people inside the VirtNet, thus the gamers who are trapped commit suicide in real life by ripping out their Cores, the objects that are the layer between their virtual and their real life bodies. Using information from Cutter, a barber in the game Lifeblood Deep, Michael and his friends hack their way into Black and Blue club. They meet Ronika the witch, who tells them that to get to Kaine's supposed base in Hallowed Ravine, they must walk on the Path, which can be accessed through the game Devils of Destruction. However, creatures controlled by Kaine known as KillSims, which disintegrate VirtNet players and leave their real life bodies brain-dead, attack and disintegrate Ronika, and leave Michael with serious but occasional headaches. Michael and his friends then manage to gain access the Path, which they find very difficult to beat. Along the way, they meet Gunner Skale, a formerly legndary gamer, who helps them realize that Kaine is actually a Rogue Tangent, Tangent being the slang term used for an AI in the VirtNet. After escaping from Skale after he tries to kill them, Michael and his friends continue on the Path, but Bryson and Sarah's VirtNet bodies are killed in the process, leaving Michael alone to keep going. Eventually, he reaches a crossroads, but a silver robot rips out his Core, so that if he dies, he dies in real life. After reaching Hallowed Ravine and discovering a Tangent meeting, the VNS sends agents to his location to attack. However, in the ensuing battle, with the KillSims attacking, a large number of VNS agents die. Kaine manages to bring Michael into a room, where Michael ends up blacking out. Michael wakes up in a Coffin, the devices used to play on the VirtNet, but realizes his body is somehow unfamiliar. He finds that Kaine left him a message saying that Michael is a Tangent and that he is the first successful subject of the Mortality Doctrine, which implants Tangent intelligence inside the humans, whose intelligences are stored in a quantum computer known as "The Hive". He also says that since he is now human, he won't receive headaches anymore, which were actually caused by Michael's Tangent intelligence decaying. Michael then realizes that he had lived in the game Lifeblood Deep and when he entered his Coffin, he entered the network used by real humans. He opens the door and meets Agent Weber, the VNS agent who contracted him to stop Kaine, who informs him that Bryson and Sarah are real, and also tells him to try to impersonate the human whose body he is in.
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