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How to Steal the Future
The Traitors meets Inception in this fast-paced, action-packed adventure with mind-bending twists by the bestselling author of Escape Room, Christopher Edge. Perfect for readers of 10+.
‘A writer of genuine originality’ The Guardian
The maze is a dangerous place. The maze is ever-changing. The maze has never been solved.
How to Steal the Future follows twelve-year-old Drew Blake, who faces the ultimate challenge. At the heart of a heavily guarded maze lies a secret – known only as the Avenir – which has the power to unlock the future. Many have tried to steal the Avenir, but no one has ever succeeded. Drew is the latest to try, just like his sister Evie did before him. But Drew has his own he doesn’t care about the Avenir; he must find his sister.
Facing dead ends, traps and double-crosses Drew realizes that the maze holds secrets more dangerous than he ever imagined. Can he find the Avenir and save Evie before it’s too late? His future depends on it . . .
‘A writer of genuine originality’ The Guardian
The maze is a dangerous place. The maze is ever-changing. The maze has never been solved.
How to Steal the Future follows twelve-year-old Drew Blake, who faces the ultimate challenge. At the heart of a heavily guarded maze lies a secret – known only as the Avenir – which has the power to unlock the future. Many have tried to steal the Avenir, but no one has ever succeeded. Drew is the latest to try, just like his sister Evie did before him. But Drew has his own he doesn’t care about the Avenir; he must find his sister.
Facing dead ends, traps and double-crosses Drew realizes that the maze holds secrets more dangerous than he ever imagined. Can he find the Avenir and save Evie before it’s too late? His future depends on it . . .
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August 13, 2026
"The Maze Runner" touches on the DNA of "Cube" and "Night at the Museum", all with a tinge of AI. Two kids are sent into a maze with a deadline of getting to the centre and finding Avenir, a future-predicting quantum entity, or something. Well, one of them is actually in there to rescue his sister who entered it a week previously, but Avenir will be there, and the maze will be changing itself any which way – from being a laser-beam-filled corridor to a mahoosive museum storage, where galleries and galleries of track-mounted cabinet units can crunch together like the worst archive gone rogue. It will also find its way to being an Alice-in-Wonderland theme park.
The possibility then is that this summary made you groan, for the book that Does Everything Whether It Makes Sense To Or Not is not a good one. This maze is full of all potential events, but luckily the author reins things in. Yes, he makes the mechanism of the shifting corridors one able to crush completely anything in its path – even drawers full of pebbles – but that fantasy aside this part showed a suitable labyrinth for Avenir to hide within. I'm not so sure about the later Alice section, but everything has to twist and turn in nature, before we see what the heck the book is really about, and who is making these (expendable?) kids try the maze on for size.
This proved an intelligent read, a tweenaged sci-fi-action-horror, that nudges you to think timey-wimey stuff, keeps you invested in the maze, its changes and their effect on the kids, and does something ultimately to both the head and the heart. I can see it as being not for everyone, but I found it to be a clever piece, and something that proves to exceed standard genre boundaries – expanding its potential even as the characters went inwards and inwards.
The possibility then is that this summary made you groan, for the book that Does Everything Whether It Makes Sense To Or Not is not a good one. This maze is full of all potential events, but luckily the author reins things in. Yes, he makes the mechanism of the shifting corridors one able to crush completely anything in its path – even drawers full of pebbles – but that fantasy aside this part showed a suitable labyrinth for Avenir to hide within. I'm not so sure about the later Alice section, but everything has to twist and turn in nature, before we see what the heck the book is really about, and who is making these (expendable?) kids try the maze on for size.
This proved an intelligent read, a tweenaged sci-fi-action-horror, that nudges you to think timey-wimey stuff, keeps you invested in the maze, its changes and their effect on the kids, and does something ultimately to both the head and the heart. I can see it as being not for everyone, but I found it to be a clever piece, and something that proves to exceed standard genre boundaries – expanding its potential even as the characters went inwards and inwards.
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