A gripping YA sci-fi thriller by German and Spiegel-bestselling author, Karl Olsberg. The Boy in a White Room was nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2018, Germany’s most prestigious youth fiction award.A fifteen-year-old boy wakes to find himself locked in a white, cube-shaped room. No windows. No doors. Total silence. He has no memories. No clue how he got there. No idea who he is.A computer-generated voice named Alice responds to his questions. Through her, he is able to access the internet. As the boy uncovers snippets of his story--an attempted abduction, a critial injury, a murder -- it becomes clearer. But when some of the pieces don't fit, how can he tell what's real and what's not? Who can he trust? And who is he really?
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Boy in a White Room
By Karl Olsberg
A gripping YA sci-fi thriller by German and Spiegel-bestselling author, Karl Olsberg. The Boy in a White Room was nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2018, Germany’s most prestigious youth fiction award.A fifteen-year-old boy wakes to find himself locked in a white, cube-shaped room. No windows. No doors. Total silence. He has no memories. No clue how he got there. No idea who he is.A computer-generated voice named Alice responds to his questions. Through her, he is able to access the internet. As the boy uncovers snippets of his story--an attempted abduction, a critial injury, a murder -- it becomes clearer. But when some of the pieces don't fit, how can he tell what's real and what's not? Who can he trust? And who is he really?
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Reviewed by LauraEin Buch, das mich erst nach dem ersten Drittel abgeholt hat, aber dann bis zum Ende gefesselt hat. Da ich normalerweise keine Jugendliteratur mehr lese, haben mich manche der stilistischen Entscheidungen des Romans irritiert. Die Dialoge klangen manchmal hölzern und die Turning points der Geschichte schienen mir teilweise too much, aber nichtsdestotrotz ist dieser Roman inhaltlich extrem wertvoll und zwischenzeitlich sehr spannend. Olsberg schafft es, eine der anspruchsvollsten Thematiken der Theoretischen Philosophie anschaulich und verständlich zu machen, die nicht nur in Bezug auf KI essentiell sind, sondern unser tiefstes Verständnis von Erkenntnis uns Identität betreffen. Hätte ich Kinder, würde ich es ihnen schenken.