Kipton in Wonderland. Kipton confronts espionage, assassination, and martian-style economics in her third adventure. She joins forces with Friedel, a classmate of German origin who has just discovered girls. They must solve a murder in a virtual-reality theater.
The Pile's businesses, those that manufacture and control air and water and choose what is imported from Earth, are regulated by UNASA. A radical group, Free Mars, espouses the overthrow of UNASA in the name of democracy and self-regulatory free enterprise. Its real aim is to decontrol prices. A UNASA undercover agent has discovered the identity of the company behind Free Mars. But before he can pass on this information, he is murdered in A virtural reality "Alice in Wonderland" as Kipton and Friedel watch. They saw the murder, the murderer, the weapon...didn't they? Nothing may be as it seems. In this adventure the reader explores virtual reality, logonomically enhanced programs which can convince people of their reality and in extreme cases, affect them physically and psychologically.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
The Pile's businesses, those that manufacture and control air and water and choose what is imported from Earth, are regulated by UNASA. A radical group, Free Mars, espouses the overthrow of UNASA in the name of democracy and self-regulatory free enterprise. Its real aim is to decontrol prices. A UNASA undercover agent has discovered the identity of the company behind Free Mars. But before he can pass on this information, he is murdered in A virtural reality "Alice in Wonderland" as Kipton and Friedel watch. They saw the murder, the murderer, the weapon...didn't they? Nothing may be as it seems. In this adventure the reader explores virtual reality, logonomically enhanced programs which can convince people of their reality and in extreme cases, affect them physically and psychologically.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
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