Copyright Date:
2016
Edition Date:
2016
Release Date:
04/19/16
Pages:
402 pages
ISBN:
1-681-62255-6
ISBN 13:
978-1-681-62255-2
Dewey:
Fic
LCCN:
2015037764
Dimensions:
23 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
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(Wed Jul 06 00:00:00 CDT 2022)
After the Doom, the cataclysmic event that sent people across the globe into bunkerlike Continuums to hide, a thousand years pass as they wait for earth to become inhabitable again. The underwater Thirteenth Continuum is ruled by the Synod and the Church of the Oracle of the Sea, and residents are sacrificed to the Holy Sea. It's here that Myra Jackson, youngest engineer in the colony, wonders about the world above. Under totalitarian rules and an unforgiving caste system, she and her friends plot to explore the Surface, even though the dangerous trip could mean the end of their lives as they know them. Alternating chapters feature Aero Wright, a captain who has a mysterious connection with Myra. Early chapters show amendments to the laws of the Thirteenth Continuum and the diary of the first president, effectively setting up the world's framework, though it is the later action-driven chapters that will hold interest. For those not yet burned out on postapocalyptic stories, this debut is an exciting and well-built read.
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Gold Medal Winner, Young Adult Fiction -- Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Independent Publisher 's Moonbeam Children's Book Awards One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the descendants of the chosen survivors take refuge in thirteen contingency shelters buried deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, and in the far reaches of outer space. In the underwater 13th Continuum, sixteen-year-old Myra Jackson has heard rumors and whisperings all her life of a magical place called "The Surface" where people could breathe fresh air, feel the warmth of something called sunlight on their skin, and see things known as stars and trees and mountains. Myra has never dared to ask whether the stories are true, since the act of speaking such words aloud is an offense punishable by death. But after she discovers that the air supply aboard her underwater colony is running out, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to find this mysterious place. To get there, she must first recover the only guide to the Surface--the Beacon, an ancient device that also connects her to Captain Aero Wright, a dashing young soldier from one of the only remaining space colonies. With the fate of all humankind depending on them, Myra and Aero must escape the tyrannical forces that rule their colonies, journey through the black depths of the ocean and across the cold void of space, to find each other on the Surface that their ancestors once called home.