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Title: |
The Backbone of Night |
| Sub-title: |
Book 2 in The Automatic Age Saga |
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| By (author): |
GMB Chomichuk, GMB Chomichuk |
| ISBN10-13: |
1773370790 : 9781773370798 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Weight: |
.204 Kg. |
| Published: |
Yellow Dog - May 2022 |
| List Price: |
8.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories : Science fiction (Children's / Teenage) : Comicstrip fiction/graphic novels (Children/Teen) |
| In the Automatic Age, the autovolts have swept the earth clean of most of its human inhabitants. Kerion and Barry are of the few survivors, mistaken as robots in the first purge because of Kerion's prosthetics. Kerion fears that his son will grow up a lonely anomaly on an earth free of people. The discovery of a group of intentionalized fanatics may be the hope they need to reconnect with the human experience. But is it better risk dangerous isolation or stay with a group of religious zealots?The truth will send them on the run in a fight for survival beneath the sea of stars to the tower known as the BACKBONE OF NIGHT."Chomichuk has developed a fascinating, complex setting . . . And he uses it to explore timely themes of automation, scarcity economics, and robot ethics, while also showcasing his formidable imagination." - Quill & Quire |
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"Desperate, suspenseful action in a nightmarish scenario." -- Kirkus Reviews
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"Chomichuk has developed a fascinating, complex setting ... And he uses it to explore timely themes of automation, scarcity economics, and robot ethics, while also showcasing his formidable imagination." -- Quill & Quire
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"Though the action-filled plot with its short chapters will easily hold readers’ attention, it is Chomichuk’s worldbuilding that will really grab readers" -- CM: Canadian Review of Materials
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"A gripping, action-packed page turner about a father and son trying to survive their post-apocalyptic world. I couldn’t put it down." -- Kristen Ciccarelli, internationally bestselling author of The Last Namsara"
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