Intelligent, cunning, and evil to the core.

Readers who enjoy strong female leads will love Brin. She’s the perfect female action-heroine: badass and ready to stand up for what is right. Brin, the heroine and main character, is a fascinating woman of incredible mental strength.

The reader will meet an ensemble of very well-developed characters. I don’t even want to go deeper into the story than that, as it is so intelligent and well-written that everyone should experience it for themselves. There the volunteers have to pass a program that will only let the very best survive… Scientists seek out exceptional candidates who have nothing to lose and upload their consciousness into virtual reality. To face the rising challenges, the government has created a program named Ten Sigma, which has the goal of creating perfect super-soldiers. In a not so distant future, society as we knew it is on the brink of destruction. This fact is even more astonishing, regarding that Ten Sigma is his debut novel. Wang, has created a masterpiece of Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk. This is easily one of the best Sci-Fi books I have ever read. Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, horror elements, some sex, some language. But, she won’t surrender to the impossible and grimly embarks on the journey to return to her family while trying to save her soul. She’s reassembled as the perfect killer.Īs the life-and-death contests begin, she discovers the true nature of what lies ahead. To save her family from bankrupting medical bills, she accepts.Īfter her consciousness is transferred into the virtual universe of the program, her essence is ripped apart and her memories shattered. On a wintry night, a government representative presents Mary, who is dying of incurable cancer, with the offer: a second chance at life and for those completing the requirements, a return to the real world in a fresh, healthy body. The methods, so harsh they go beyond anything possible in the real world, are necessary for the end goal: violent evolution to produce the greatest warriors in all of human history. Those who die are expunged from the system, gone forever. The combatants who live are rewarded with another battle until they reach the unreachable score of ten sigmas. The struggles span all possibilities: face-offs with knives and clubs, skirmishes as Roman legionaries, pitched WW1 trench warfare, duels with ultra-modern hypersonic weapons, and everything in between. In future America, the downloaded people in the Ten Sigma Program fight endless battles.

Ten Sigma by A.W. Wang