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* BigDamnHeroes: Caligula [[spoiler:when he runs in on the scene where Sadie and Noah are receiving their biots.]] Wilkes, [[spoiler:when she saves Vincent from having his biots killed in Anya's body.]]


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* MercyKill: When Vincent [[spoiler:is about to have his biots killed]], he requests that Caligula kill him rather than allow him to go mad.
-->'''Vincent''': Madness or death. Make it death.

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* BlueEyes: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones. His blue eyes fulfill Types 1, 2, and 3, based on which point you're on at the story.
-->But of course it was those eyes that drew you in. Where had he gotten eyes that blue? They looked unnatural. Like someone wearing tinted contact lenses ... You wouldn't know whether you were looking into profound depths or maybe just into a very crazy place.



* CainAndAbel: Averted. Stone is wistfully envious of Sadie's freedom but is not resentful in any way.



* BlueEyes: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones. His blue eyes fulfill Types 1, 2, and 3, based on which point you're on at the story.
-->But of course it was those eyes that drew you in. Where had he gotten eyes that blue? They looked unnatural. Like someone wearing tinted contact lenses ... You wouldn't know whether you were looking into profound depths or maybe just into a very crazy place.
* CainAndAbel: Averted. Stone is wistfully envious of Sadie's freedom but is not resentful in any way.

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* BlueEyes: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones. His blue eyes fulfill Types 1, 2, and 3, based on which point you're on at CoupDeGrace: Caligula tells Sadie to shoot the story.
-->But of course it was those eyes that drew you in. Where had
man she accidentally [[GroinAttack shot in the balls]]. When she refuses, he gotten eyes that blue? They looked unnatural. Like someone wearing tinted contact lenses ... You wouldn't know whether you were looking into profound depths or maybe just into a very crazy place.
* CainAndAbel: Averted. Stone is wistfully envious of Sadie's freedom but is not resentful
shoots the man in any way.the head.



* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Caligula to Anya.
-->'''Caligula''': Now, listen to me, whoever the hell you are. Vincent over there doesn't want me to kill you. But if I have the slightest trouble with you -- any trouble at all -- I will ignore young Vincent and shoot you.



* GroinAttack: Sadie accidentally shoots a man in the crotch. Caligula [[CoupDeGrace mercy kills]].



* ImprobableAimingSkills: Caligula. In the first two pages he's introduced, he shoots a man in the forehead, follows it up by shooting another man in the windpipe, and then mercy kills another man ''without looking in his direction.''



* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one. Subverted in that we know most of the twitchers' real names during their point of views (with the exception of Ophelia, Caligular, Lear, and other minor characters such as Dr. Pound). Bug Man's real name is given as well, and the reader learns of Alex Cotton's real name before his identity as [[spoiler: Kerouac]] is revealed.

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* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one. Subverted in that we know most of the twitchers' real names during their point of views (with the exception of Ophelia, Caligular, Caligula, Lear, and other minor characters such as Dr. Pound). Bug Man's real name is given as well, and the reader learns of Alex Cotton's real name before his identity as [[spoiler: Kerouac]] is revealed.



-->'''Vincent''': I need both of you to trust me. I don't meant that I'd ''like'' you to trust me. I mean that I ''need'' you to trust me. For that reason, I will never lie to you. If you were ever to catch me in a lie, you would never fully trust me again. So I will never lie.

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-->'''Vincent''': I need both of you to trust me. I don't meant that I'd ''like'' you to trust me. I mean that I ''need'' you to trust me. For that reason, I will never lie to you. If you were ever to catch me in a lie, you would never fully trust me again. So I will never lie.lie.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Caligula. Another CrowningMomentOfFunny.
-->'''Caligula''': Don't accidentally shoot me. I will resent it.
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* JustInTime: Caligula, in the disaster that happens when Sadie and Noah are receiving their biots. [[spoiler:Renfield is dead and Vincent has a gun to his head. Caligula appears with a pistol and an axe and offs three people in quick succession to save Vincent, Sadie, and Noah.]]


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* OffWithHisHead: Caligula [[spoiler:chops Renfield's head off in four blows]] in order to keep the biots from being discovered. However, [[spoiler:Renfield]] is already dead when it happens.
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* AndIMustScream: Doubles up as HighOctaneNightmareFuel and YMMV, but, imagine this:
-->Bug Man had a fantasy: he wanted to take one of Vincent's biots alive and haul it out into the macro. Keep it alive and play with it for a while. As Vincent went slowly mad.
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* IfIWantedYouDead: Vincent to Sadie when he's in her bathroom.
-->'''Vincent''': ''[with a pen blade up against Sadie's heart]'' If I were here to kill you, you'd be long dead by now.
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* WhenSheSmiles: Ophelia. According to Sadie, she has a smile that lights up the room.

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* WhenSheSmiles: Ophelia. According to Sadie, she has a smile that lights up the room.room.
* WillNotTellALie: Vincent to Sadie and Noah.
-->'''Vincent''': I need both of you to trust me. I don't meant that I'd ''like'' you to trust me. I mean that I ''need'' you to trust me. For that reason, I will never lie to you. If you were ever to catch me in a lie, you would never fully trust me again. So I will never lie.
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* EyeScream: The best way for a biot in get into the brain is through the the eyeball, so not only do we get lots of eerie descriptions of eyes, but eye violence such as later such as ''jamming fingers into someone's eyeball.''

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* EyeScream: The best way for a biot in get into the brain is through the the eyeball, so not only do we get lots of eerie descriptions of eyes, but eye violence such as later such as ''jamming fingers into someone's eyeball.''

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''In this war, there are only two outcomes: victory or madness.''

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* {{Patricide}}: The Armstrong Twins mention smothering their father to death with a pillow.



* UptownGirl: In a way. Sadie is wealthy, but Noah is a poor British boy. There is less focus on their financial aspects, but that might only be because they have bigger fish to fry.

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* UptownGirl: In a way. Sadie is wealthy, but Noah is a poor British boy. There is less focus on their financial aspects, but that might only be because they have bigger fish to fry.fry.
* WhenSheSmiles: Ophelia. According to Sadie, she has a smile that lights up the room.
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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant (husband of KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and {{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.

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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant (husband of KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and {{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Vincent to Anya, Bug Man to Jessica. (Both rewire the women's brains so that they "love" the men. Vincent so he can get access to Anya's technology, Bug Man for selfish reasons.)
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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant (husband of KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and {{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or the ''good guys'' are all that good.

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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant (husband of KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and {{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.



* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are described as grotesque and they share one eyeball. The general body horror is noted by Sadie Sadie, who is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body while looking through the eyes of his biots.

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* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are described as grotesque and they share one eyeball. The general body horror is noted by Sadie Sadie, who is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body while looking through the eyes of his biots.
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* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-a-Lot]]: A minor character, Little Cora, according to Noah.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Lear, who is mentioned and deferred to, but does not appear once throughout the entire first book.
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* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: [[spoiler:Sadie, after the plane accident that kills Grey and Stone McLure.]]

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* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: [[spoiler:Sadie, after the plane accident that kills Grey her father and Stone McLure.brother.]]
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* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: [[spoiler:Sadie, after the plane accident that kills Grey and Stone McLure.]]

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* MeaningfulName: The whole point of their ''noms de guerre'.



* StraightGay: Nijinsky. Aside from the fact he's a SharpDressedMan, there's no real indication he's gay until later in the novel.

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* StraightGay: Nijinsky. Aside from the fact he's a SharpDressedMan, there's no real indication (with the exception of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky his name]], which most readers would not have picked up anyway) that he's gay until later in the novel.



* UptownGirl: In a way. Sadie is wealthy, but Noah is a poor British boy. There is less focus on their financial aspects, but that might only be because they have bigger fish to fry.

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* UptownGirl: In a way. Sadie is wealthy, but Noah is a poor British boy. There is less focus on their financial aspects, but that might only be because they have bigger fish to fry.
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* ApologisesALot: Tony, the boy that Sadie goes to the football game with at the beginning of the novel.


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* RichBitch: Averted as well as lampshaded with Sadie.

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* AccidentalPervert: Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny. Vincent walks in on Sadie in the bathtub. Sadie is naked. Vincent barely notices until she points it out.



* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe as grotesque and they share one eyeball. Noted by a character when Sadie is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body while looking through the eyes of her biots.
** Ophelia [[spoiler:gets both feet blown off in an explosion at the end.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Averted with Noah. He still leaves though.

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* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe described as grotesque and they share one eyeball. Noted The general body horror is noted by a character when Sadie Sadie, who is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body while looking through the eyes of her his biots.
** Ophelia [[spoiler:gets both feet blown off in an explosion at the end.end of the novel.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Averted with Noah. He still leaves though.home though. (Then again, he didn't have much to stay for.)


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* InitiationCeremony: Noah's is particularly distressing.

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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In a way, with the deformed Armstrong twins.
* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe as grotesque and they share one eyeball. Noted by a character when Sadie is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body.

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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In a way, with the deformed Armstrong twins.
twins, who are very much not good. Played straight with Stone, who was described as handsome and had too short a scene to be anything other than neutral or good.
* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe as grotesque and they share one eyeball. Noted by a character when Sadie is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body.body while looking through the eyes of her biots.
** Ophelia [[spoiler:gets both feet blown off in an explosion at the end.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Averted with Noah. He still leaves though.


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* CainAndAbel: Averted. Stone is wistfully envious of Sadie's freedom but is not resentful in any way.

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* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one. Subverted in that we know Plath's and Keat's, as well as Nijinsky's, real names during their point of views. Bug Man as well.

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* MadnessMantra: Noah's brother Alex in the first chapter. He is handcuffed to keep from moving, and repeats "nano nano nano" over and over ... until he gets to "berserk berserk berserk". It's chilling to the reader and only gets worse when the reader realizes that if any of the twitchers' biots die, this is what they become.
* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one. Subverted in that we know Plath's and Keat's, as well as Nijinsky's, most of the twitchers' real names during their point of views. views (with the exception of Ophelia, Caligular, Lear, and other minor characters such as Dr. Pound). Bug Man Man's real name is given as well.well, and the reader learns of Alex Cotton's real name before his identity as [[spoiler: Kerouac]] is revealed.

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* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe as grotesque and they share one eyeball.
* BlueEyes: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones.

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* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe as grotesque and they share one eyeball.
eyeball. Noted by a character when Sadie is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body.
* BlueEyes: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones. His blue eyes fulfill Types 1, 2, and 3, based on which point you're on at the story.
-->But of course it was those eyes that drew you in. Where had he gotten eyes that blue? They looked unnatural. Like someone wearing tinted contact lenses ... You wouldn't know whether you were looking into profound depths or maybe just into a very crazy place.
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* AllAsiansAreAlike: Lampshaded with Nijinsky, a Chinese-American. See the below conversation in DeadpanSnarker.


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* DeadpanSnarker: Nijinksy. More snarker than deadpan. The deadpan may very well go to Nijinsky's buddy Vincent.
-->'''Lebowski''': Tell me your name.
-->'''Nijinsky''': Santino Corleone.
-->'''Lebowski''': That's very cute. Funny, you don't look Italian.
-->'''Nijinsky''': You're very observant.
-->'''Lebowski''': ''[[spoiler:(smacks him with a club)]]'' [[AllAsiansAreAlike What are you, Chinese? Korean?]]
-->'''Nijinsky''': I thought I was Italian.
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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant (husband of KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and Literature/{{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or the ''good guys'' are all that good.

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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant (husband of KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and Literature/{{Remnants}} {{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or the ''good guys'' are all that good.
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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant, husband of KAApplegate and author of {{Literature/Gone}}, is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or the ''good guys'' are all that good.

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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant, husband Grant (husband of KAApplegate KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and Literature/{{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}, {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or the ''good guys'' are all that good.

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* BodyHorror: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are describe as grotesque and they share one eyeball.



* EyeScream: The best way for a biot in get into the brain is through the the eyeball, so not only do we get lots of eerie descriptions of eyes, but eye violence such as later such as ''jamming fingers into someone's eyeball.''



* PuppeteerParasite: The nano machines.
* StraightGay: Nijinsky. Aside from the fact he's a SharpDressedMan, there's no real indication he's gay until later in the novel.



* TheStoic: Vincent, countered by pleasure-seeking Nijinksy.

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* TheStoic: Vincent, countered by pleasure-seeking Nijinksy. Vincent suffers from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia anhedonia]], and cannot feel pleasure.

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\n* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In a way, with the deformed Armstrong twins.
* BlueEyes: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones.
* FauxYay: [[HoYay Nijinsky and Vincent.]] Gotta keep the bad guys off their scent, after all.
* [[FeelNoPain Feel No Pleasure:]] Oh, Vincent.
* FleshVersusSteel: Biots versus nanos.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Anya to Vincent, in a way.
* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one. Subverted in that we know Plath's and Keat's, as well as Nijinsky's, real names during their point of views. Bug Man as well.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Vincent, who [[spoiler:killed a woman in the first chapter in which he appeared,]] which did nothing to reassure the reader that the side of the biotic twitchers was the 'good' side, which leads to...
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Pretty cynical. Neither side is wholly good.
* ThemeNaming: The biotic twichers name themselves after famous people in history who went mad. It's meant to remind them that [[{{Tagline}} their only outcomes are victory or madness.]]
* TheStoic: Vincent, countered by pleasure-seeking Nijinksy.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Wilkes and Ophelia, respectively, who are foils.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Nijinsky is Asian and gay.
* UptownGirl: In a way. Sadie is wealthy, but Noah is a poor British boy. There is less focus on their financial aspects, but that might only be because they have bigger fish to fry.

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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant, husband of KAApplegate and author of {{Literature/Gone}}, is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy.


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''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant, husband of KAApplegate and author of {{Literature/Gone}}, is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy.

conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or the ''good guys'' are all that good.

The series is also [[TheresNoSuchThingAsNotability notable]] for expanding the world of the novel with extensive [[AlternateRealityGame transmedia]] projects. The ARG, Nexus Humanus is [[http://nexushumanus.com/ here]], with the official website being [[http://gobzrk.com/ here]].
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''In this war, there are only two outcomes: victory or madness.''

All around us, there's a hidden war being fought. One side wants to control our minds to create utopia, and the other is fighting for us to be miserable if we chose. It's being fought with state-of-the-art technology in the nano, in ''us.'' Our bodies. Our brains. And if any of the lose, it could mean madness for them.

''BZRK'', written by Michael Grant, husband of KAApplegate and author of {{Literature/Gone}}, is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy.

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