Girl Gone Viral

【程式代碼築構虛擬世界，卻無法拼湊真實的親情】

對17歲的 Opal Hopper 來說，code 是魔法，她可以從無到有建造整個世界，從火星的隕石坑、波光粼粼的湖泊，以及她內心所渴望的任何虛擬體驗。但是無論怎麼coding也無法讓父親重回生活。父親在 Opal 的十歲生日後失蹤，只留下一個神秘的筆記。儘管Opal 拼命試圖找到他，但他從未出現。隨後，她便入學了一間天才兒童的寄宿學校，並試圖淡忘這件事。

時間回到現在，世界上最大的虛擬平台 WAVE，即將舉辦了一場競賽，並宣布獲勝者能與 WAVE 的創始人見面。而那位身價過億的創辦人與Opal的父親曾經密切合作過，而她也一直相信那個人可能知道父親去了哪裡，甚至還懷疑他可能就是謀殺父親的兇手。但當Opal為了贏得比賽而失控散播病毒，在謊言之下，Opal 要如何尋找一直追求的答案？

For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her heart desires.

But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget.

Until now. Because WAVE, the world's biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal's dad. The one she always believed might know where he went. The one who maybe even murdered him.

What begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control when Opal goes viral, digging her deeper into a hole of lies, hacks, and manipulation. How far will Opal go for the answers--or is it the attention--she's wanted for years?