Series
The Mortality Doctrine
James Dashner · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2013–2015
The Eye of Minds opens James Dashner's Mortality Doctrine trilogy in a near-future where a teenage gamer is recruited to help stop a rogue hacker named Kaine who threatens mass destruction from inside the virtual world he haunts. Dashner has said he didn't intend the series as dystopian in the way of his Maze Runner books, though he saw it sharing their tone and spirit. The trilogy continues with The Rule of Thoughts and The Game of Lives.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 2010s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionvirtual realityvirtual worldnear futuretenseyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Rule of Thoughtsdarkest · most intense
- The Eye of Mindsbrightest · calmest