I read the book Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski. The book is about the futurein 2053. Now the earth’s population is only around 2 million becuase of disease, andchemical and nuclear war have made much of the planet unfit for living. Now people livein huge bubbles for ozone and toxin protection. There are also no wars now, becuasethere aren’t enough people, so they have virtual war. Virtual war is when they have ateam of 3 of there best fight for them. The main character is a boy named Corgan, and heis the team leader. He is 14 years old and had been genetically made for the virtual war. Corgan lived in a “aerogel” box for all his life, and a program was written for him to act asa mother and father, called the Mendor. His team was very good. Sharla was chosen tobe on the team because she was a code breaker. And the third teammate was a geneticexperimnet gone wrong. He was a mutant with a huge head and a small skinny body. Buthe was very smart. They all trained together and were unbeatable. The team was goinginto war over an island that was fit for living. They won the battle, and afterwards Corganfound out that people placed bets on the war, like it was a game. The virtual war wassupposed to be held so people would know how man was like and learn from his lesson,but since they placed bets and thought of it as a game, they had learned nothing. I would not recommend this book. It had a simple plot and boring characters. Itmight be a fun book to read for people who are into computers and the future oftechnology, but it was not heart-pumping as I thought it would be. I think the author hada good point but many people would not read it to the end so they wouldn’t get anythingout of it. It was like a goosebumps book. So I wouldn’t recommed this book....
