01488cam a2200313 i 4500 517237274 TxAuBib 160607s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016014482 9781501144417 1501144413 (OCoLC)26184 TxAuBib rda Rekulak, Jason. The impossible fortress : a novel / Jason Rekulak. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos of Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White, Billy meets expert programmer Mary Zelinsky, and everything changes. Teenage boys Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Friendship in adolescence Fiction. Geeks (Computer enthusiasts) Fiction. Computer games Fiction. TXHSP