Showing results for "The Loop" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

It's Luka Kane's 16th birthday and he's been inside The Loop for over two years. Every inmate is serving a death sentence with the option to push back their execution date by six months if they opt into "delays", scientific and medical experiments for the benefit of the elite in the outside world. But rumors of a war on the outside are spreading amonst the inmates, and before they know it, their tortuous routine becomes disrupted. The government issued rain stops falling. Strange things are happening to the guards. And it's not long until the inmates are left alone inside the prison.

Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time, it's a fate worse than death. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for 12 hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization. The only semblance of relief is the Sane Zone, created to keep prisoners from going completely mad. In this virtual reality, the prisoners live out their fantasies of life outside. But for Luka, it's different.

Luka ist wieder im Gefängnis und diesmal ist es schlimmer als jemals zuvor. Im Block kann er die manipulierten Bilder in seinem Kopf nicht länger von der Realität unterscheiden. Dennoch gelingt ein riskanter Ausbruch und führt ihn und seine Freunde wieder zusammen. Versteckt im Herzen der zerstörten Stadt wird Luka allmählich das Ausmaß ihrer Mission klar: Um den Krieg zu gewinnen, müssen sie Happy besiegen, das alles beherrschende System. Und so ziehen die Jugendlichen mit ihrer stärksten und einzigen Waffe in den Kampf gegen die künstliche Intelligenz: ihrer Freundschaft.

But one Alt, Chester "Chilly" Beckett, did not celebrate; his eyes have been opened to the truth. Luka's corpse is dragged away, but Chester remains determined to find out what is going on in the Laboratory on the 65th floor. There, he finds three subjects tortured in an attempt to extract a regeneration formula... and one of the subjects is, impossibly, a face he never thought he'd seen again. A bold escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw nearer.