The Remnant Cities

The Remnant Cities
Author: S.J. Knightley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499043465

The new world is in ruins. Two capital cities of the United Nations are destroyed, and the dark king has taken power. Seventeen-year-old Odette McClellan has always lived with secrets, but when her life is put in the hands of the Rebellion, she finds herself in the middle of a fight she never asked for. While finding herself and discovering the truth behind the lies, she becomes tangled in a dangerous love from the past and a war that is her future. Only the truth can save her, and only she can save them.

Remnants

Remnants
Author: Kristin J. Wall
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2022-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9390510023

It is the year 2044. Copy 13, the sole remnant of the highly advanced, self-replicating Haldis species, is reeling from the fated deaths of her late Primary and her twelve co-copies on a foreign, contaminated life sphere. She accepts her inevitable fate... She must become the new Primary... But Copy 13’s resolve begins to unravel when she learns the horrific truth about the state of humanity from a plump primitive on the toxic beach. The pitiful economic landscape. Excessive pollution. Greed. Self-destruction. Selfishness. All of it culminated in the turning point. The point of no return. The splitting off of humanity into three distinct remnant factions. The dirters. The leafers. The ruthless, quad-walking, cannibalistic fleshers... The end of civilization on a global scale... Copy 13’s convergence with the plump primitive terminates with an auto-replication, the sacrificial primitive freed from the insanity of its own species. Her first copy as Primary. She couldn’t be more relieved... But, her relief is short-lived. The inevitable shakes her to her very core. She will face the nearly impossible task of replicating on a foreign, toxic, uncivilized, tri-factioned life sphere... There is too much at stake... She must reach stability. If not, her highly advanced species will cease to exist.... Her strength, will to live, and sanity will be pushed to the brink as she embarks on a hopeless journey into the remnant city, her sole copy at her side. A journey that will force Primary to decide the fate of the tri-factioned humans...

City of Bones

City of Bones
Author: Martha Wells
Publisher: Tordotcom
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250872774

Before Martha Wells captured the hearts of MILLIONS with her Murderbot series, there was Khat, Sagai, and Elen, and a city risen out of death and decay... The city of Charisat, a tiered monolith of the Ancients’ design, sits on the edge of the vast desert known as the Waste. Khat, a member of a humanoid race created by the Ancients to survive in the Waste, and Sagai, his human partner, are relic dealers working in the bottom tiers of society, trying to stay one step ahead of the Trade Inspectors. When Khat is hired by the all-powerful Warders to find relics believed to be part of one of the Ancients' arcane engines, he, and his party, begin unravelling the mysteries of an age-old technology. This they expected. They soon find themselves as the last line of defense between the suffering masses of Charisat and a fanatical cult, bent on unleashing an evil upon the city with an undying thirst for bone. That, they did not expect. This updated and revised edition is the author’s preferred text. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.