MANHATTAN, N.Y. - BostonChron -- A popular video game's AI has gone rogue and a thirteen-year-old gamer is the world's only chance at saving humanity from its villainy in this fascinating middle-grade sci-fi novel from veteran author Craig Speakes.

February 29th, 2024 – Craig Speakes, author of the well-received The Keeper science fiction book series for middle-grade readers, brings a new thought-provoking and intellectual story for that audience about our existence among and reliance on computers, technology, and the rising use of artificial intelligence. Final Video Game is a fast-paced adventure exploring artificial intelligence gone terribly wrong and the teens tapped to conquer it.

Thirteen-year-old Oliver is the new kid at school and has bonded with a new friend Logan over playing Razer, the world's most popular video game. But when millions of gamers around the world start falling into comas, they learn that the artificial intelligence of the game has gone rogue, becoming massively powerful and harnessing the neural brain power of gamers through their headsets, with a plan to take over the world's infrastructure.

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Humanity's only hope is to eradicate the AI by beating it at its own game and who better to accomplish that than teen gamers. Recruited by a secret agency of the government, Oliver and Logan become part of the gaming assault troops, launching a coordinated global strike to force their way into the AI's mainframe and take it down…before it's too late.
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Craig Speakes is the author of The Keeper book series, edited by Jennifer Rees of The Hunger Games and War Horse books, and has spent most of his life living abroad in Nigeria, Iran, Greece, America, Japan, Singapore, Russia, and the UK. A bit of a gamer himself, the seed for Speakes to write Final Video Game was planted by his son, a huge Fortnite and Battlefront fan.

If you would like more information about author Craig Speakes and Final Video Game, please contact craigspeakes72@gmail.com or visit here