The Softwire: Betrayal on Orbis 2

published March 25th 2008 by Candlewick
isbn 0763627100 (isbn13: 9780763627102)

On Orbis 2, Johnny Turnbull has a new home and a new job, one that pushes his softwire abilities to painful limits. JT is the only one who can communicate with the Samirans, large aquatic aliens who have cooled the crystals on Orbis for nearly two thousand rotations. But as the Samirans' work rule ostensibly comes to a close, they have grown dangerously agitated, and JT must find out why. What he learns is that the prosperity of Orbis is built on a brutal system of enforced labour - and that everyone seems to have something to hide. Can JT appease the Samirans before their threat is realized? And if he doesn't, will his friends survive?
In this second episode of The Softwire, PJ Haarsma takes readers on another lightning-paced, cyber-fuelled ride through the amazing universe he introduced in The Softwire: Virus On Orbis 1.

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