by Amy Tintera
Callum touched my arm, and I turned to see a grin spreading across his face.
He pointed in front of him at a large wooden sign.
REBOOT TERRITORY
ALL HUMANS TURN BACK
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SO MANY PEOPLE HELPED TO GET REBOOT INTO READERS’ HANDS, and I am forever grateful to all of you. Thank you to:
My agent, Emmanuelle Morgen, who had incredible faith in Reboot and worked so hard to make sure Wren and Callum found a good publishing home. And thank you to Alison, Ellen, Judy, and Sarah at Stonesong for your enthusiasm and support!
My editor, Kari Sutherland, for your editorial insight and amazing attention to detail. This book truly became so much better in your hands. And thank you to Farrin Jacobs, Alice Jerman, and the whole team at Harper for taking such good care of me and Reboot.
Lucy Stille and Lane Shefter-Bishop, for the amazing work you did with the book’s film rights, and everyone at Paradigm, from my mailroom buddies to the chairman, who reached out to celebrate with me. And thank you, Lindsey and Peggy, for providing me with happy days at work so I was refreshed and ready to write this story at night.
To all the other writers who took this journey with me: the Lucky 13s, for answering all my questions (even the dumb ones) and being so wonderfully supportive. Natalie, Kim, Michelle, Amy, Ruth, Corinne, L.J., Deborah, Gemma, Lori, and Stephanie—thank you for sharing your stories with me and listening to mine.
John T., Sara, and Sean, for offering to read and crit not just Reboot but the last book; Vong and Hannah R., for your feedback on the first part of the manuscript; and Hannah P., for being Reboot’s first fan and pointing out that I was using the wrong “its” (you were right). All my friends who read my work, celebrated with me, and didn’t get mad when I wouldn’t hang out on Sundays—Michelle and Josh, Sara and Sean, Mely and JP—thank you for putting up with my weirdness!
My family, for always encouraging my writing, even when I was scribbling out novels by hand. Thank you to my mom and dad, for sharing your love of reading with me and allowing me to chase my dreams.
Mike, thank you for your unfailing optimism and enthusiasm, and for never getting mad when I ignored you to spend time with imaginary people.
And my sister, Laura, the first person to tell me she loved Reboot and the only person to have read every single bad book that came before it. Thank you for being my first and best crit partner.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brant Brogan
AMY TINTERA grew up in Texas and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She has degrees in journalism and film and can usually be found staring into space, dreaming up ways to make her characters run for their lives. You can visit her online at www.amytintera.com.
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CREDITS
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COPYRIGHT
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tintera, Amy.
Reboot / Amy Tintera. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: “Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier until she is given an order she refuses to follow.”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-221707-3 (trade bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-06-228745-8 (international edition)
EPub Edition March 2013 ISBN 9780062217097
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Soldiers—Fiction. 3. Dead—Fiction. 4. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.T493Reb 2013 2012051741
[Fic]—dc23 CIP
AC
13 14 15 16 17 CG/RRDH 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
FIRST EDITION
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