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The softwire : virus on Orbis 1 by P J Haarsma; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P><b>&quot;Filled with exotic aliens, dangerous situations, and fast-paced adventure. Younger sci-fi fans will happily hang in with JT.&quot; &#8212; BOOKLIST</b><P>Thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull has always known there was something different about him. It turns out he&#8217;s the first-ever human softwire &#8212;- able to enter and communicate with computers with his mind. Now that JT and two hundred other orphans have been put to work in alien factories on the first ring of Orbis, things are going very wrong. The &quot;perfect&quot; central computer is malfunctioning, and suspicious eyes are turning to JT. Could he be the one responsible?</p><h3>Children's Literature</h3><p>The children on the Renaissance have been in space for 253 years and most of the time in plastic dishes. All the parents aboard are deceased, leaving the children alone. Their mother is the large computer on the spaceship. The parents had signed to stay on Orbis 1 for four years, never dreaming they would be leaving their orphaned children to become slaves on Orbis. Many people have two heads, are of different colors and have metal stilts instead of legs. Orbis is controlled by a huge computer and the w

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Author

P J Haarsma; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780763636388

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Computer Science

Rating

3.8 / 5 (828 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13