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Dangerous Reality

by Malorie Blackman

Interest age: 10+
Reading age: 10+

Published by Corgi, 2012

  • Adventure
  • Classics
  • Science fiction
  • Thriller

About this book

Dominic’s Mum is super-clever. She’s invented Vims, a Virtual Interactive Mobile System, which can be programmed to do anything – defuse bombs, detect landmines, operate complex equipment in hazardous conditions – it’s genius. But when a saboteur re-programmes Vims, its first important demonstrations go horribly wrong. Only then does Dominic realise that Vims is lethal, and it’s coming for him…

A gripping story in which Dominic turns detective, to discover who has betrayed his Mum. He rapidly realises that unlike computers, people can’t be programmed. They sometimes do the wrong things for the right reasons, with life-changing consequences. Dominic also uncovers some painful home truths about friendship, family, loyalty and trust.   

About the author

Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers.

The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award – Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice – while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994.

Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books.

In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature. She was the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2013-2015.

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