Product Description
Space Ranger: it's the best theme park ride ever. State-of-the-art computers and lasers combine to create a thrilling out-of-this-world experience, a voyage into the farthest reaches of our solar system and beyond But when competitors hack into the computers and sabotage its systems, Nicky and her freinds find themselves on a terrifying ride - a ride into space from which they might never return...
From the Back Cover
A fatal error has occurred.
I stare at the screen. My hands are sweating. The mouse slips. What's going on? The computer blinks calmly back at me. It's not getting upset. It's just telling me what's happened...
Space Ranger: it's the best theme park ride ever. State-of-the-art computers and lasers combine to simulate a thrilling out-of-this-world experience. Space Ranger takes you on a voyage into the farthest reaches of our solar system and beyond. But how real is Space Ranger? And what would happen if something went wrong? When competitors hack into Space Ranger's computers and sabotage its systems, Nicky is about to find out. For she and her friends are on board - on a ride into space from which they might never return.
About the Author
Helen Dunmore is a freelance writer of fiction and poetry for both adults and children, including In the Money (Julia MacRae/Red Fox), Going to Egypt (Julia MacRae/Red Fox) and Amima's Blanket (Banana Books, Heinemann). Her titles for adults have won her several literary prizes and awards, including the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, The Signal Award for Secrets and the Orange Prize for A Spell of Winte . Her other adult novels include Zennor in Darkness, Burning Bright and Talking to the Dead. She has wide experience as a writer in schools, libraries etc., working with schemes such as the Poetry Society's Poets-in-Schools, and independently. Author lives: Bristol.
