CRASHLAND

The Matrix meets the UGLIES series in the page-turning second book of the Twinmaker trilogy.

Set in the near future, life is blissfully easy for teen protagonist Clair and her friends—they just need to step in a D-mat booth, and they can be instantly transported wherever they want to be, anywhere in the world. The same is true for food, clothing—whatever you want, you can have whenever you want it. This all seems fabulous… until Clair’s best friend Libby steps into one of these transport booths and disappears altogether. With the help of anti-tech Jesse, a loner acquaintance from school, Clair must get to the bottom of the heavily flawed transport system, a deadly world of cover-ups and conspiracies.

In CRASHLAND, Clair and Jesse have barely been reunited when the world is plunged into its biggest crisis since the Water Wars. The d-mat network is broken. The world has ground to a halt. People are trapped, injured, dying. It’s the end of the world as Clair knows it—and it’s partly her fault.
“The girl who killed d-mat” is enlisted to track down her missing friend Q—the rogue AI who repeatedly saved Clair’s life. Q is the key to fixing the system, but she isn’t responding to calls for help, and even if she did...can she be trusted?
Targeted by dupes, abandoned by her friends, caught in a web of lies that strike at the very essence of who she is, Clair finds powerful allies in RADICAL, secretive activists who are the polar opposite of anti-d-mat terrorist group WHOLE. However, if she helps them find Q, will she be inadvertently trapping her friend in a life of servitude—or worse, sending her to an early death by erasure? Caught between pro- and anti-d-mat philosophies, in a world on the brink of all-out war, Clair must decide where she stands—and who she stands with, at the end.

Number-one New York Times bestselling author of STAR WARS: The Force Unleashed, Sean Williams is best-known internationally for his award-winning space opera series and novels set in the Star Wars universe, many co-written with Shane Dix. These include the ASTROPOLIS, EVERGENCE, ORPHANS, and GEODESICA series. His stories have been gathered in several collections, including NEW ADVENTURES IN SCI-FI, LIGHT BODIES FALLING and MAGIC DIRT: The Best of Sean Williams.