小說/散文

Good War
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20280659
作者：
Strasser, Todd
定價：
315
會員價：
$268
ISBN：
9780593173671
出版年份：
2022
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
192
  • 本書介紹
【當遊戲不再只是遊戲】
鐵村中學最近成立了電競社。學生們在社團中玩的是一款以第二次世界大戰為背景的故事，名為「The Good War」。他們被分成兩隊，分別扮演同盟國與軸心國模擬戰爭的進行，只有一隊能夠勝出。然而同學間的良性競爭卻在其中一方走火入魔後變了調，也影響了他們的現實生活。一個電玩會不會改變他們看待彼此的方式或甚至他們的世界觀？

這本帶有警世意味的小說透過電玩的角度探索學生產生偏見和激進化的過程，也描寫了網路在其中的影響力，在現今資訊流動快速且幾近無限制的社會更值得一讀。

From the author of The Wave comes a poignant and timely novel about a group of seventh graders who are brought together—and then torn apart—by an afterschool club that plays a video game based on WW2.

There's a new afterschool club at Ironville Middle School.

Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II.

They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when an one player takes the game too far.

Can an afterschool club change the way the students see each other...and how they see the world?

"By using a gaming lens to explore the students’ entrée to prejudice and radicalization, he succeeds in lending immediacy and accessibility to his cautionary tale."—Kirkus Reviews

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