The Maze Runner (series)
2009 edition cover of the first book
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| Author | James Dashner |
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| Cover artist | Philip Straub |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Adventure Science fiction Dystopian Young adult fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
| Published | 2009–present |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book |
The Maze Runner series is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010), and The Death Cure (2011), as well as the two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013).
The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The scorched planet can no longer cultivate enough food for the survivors, so authorities engineer a virus (the Flare) as a form of population control, believing it kills quickly and will stop spreading after a while. When the Flare escalates beyond control, killing many but turning others into mindless Cranks capable of further spreading the Flare, the remaining authorities create WICKED (World In Catastrophe: Kill-zone Experiment Department) to try to find a cure. WICKED soon realizes that some children and newborns are Immunes, performing a "Swipe" of their memories and experimenting on them to find a cure. WICKED eventually understands that there is no cure and the world will crumble, focusing their final efforts on giving a settlement of Immunes their memories and all remaining resources to rebuild society and restore the human race.
The Maze Runner is the first book in the series and was released on October 6th, 2009.
A number of teenagers, who call themselves "The Gladers", are left in a strange place which they call "The Glade". Beyond the walls of the Glade is the ever-changing maze, with its horrifying creatures, the Grievers. Every month a newcomer, or greenie, joins the Gladers, sent by a lift with all past memories (except language and other common things) wiped out. The only thing that they really do remember is their name. The ultimate goal of the remaining Gladers, is to find a way out of the Glade. To do so, the runners venture into the maze everyday, to map it in an attempt to find a pattern in the maze that would lead them to find an exit. When Thomas, a curious newcomer, arrives at the Glade and ventures into the maze, unusual things begin to happen.
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