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The master of children's fantasy returns with a thrilling science fiction adventure. The clock is ticking for the children of the world, and the key to survival rests in the hands of Shade's Children. In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade - once a man, but now more like the machines he fights - recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power - and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become!
From the Back Cover
I've been here with Shade for three years. There's been a lot of children in this place since then. I've seen their videos, but I'll never see them. You sit in the dark, watching their faces as they talk through their brief lives, and all the time you wonder what got them in the end.
Now you're watching me ... and you're wondering ... what got her?
In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live past the age of fourteen. Ella, Drum, Gold-Eye, and Ninde have all escaped this terrible fate and are recruited into a resistance movement by the mysterious Shade.
Haunted ceaselessly by savage, mutant creatures, Shade's children work together to discover the source of the Overlords' power. But as they get closer to their goal, they begin to question Shade's motives and objectives.
Chilling post-apocalyptic novel from the international bestselling author of 'Sabriel', 'Lireal', and 'Abhorsen'. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.