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The Deserter
A Young Adult Fantasy Novel by Peadar Ó Guilín
Book 2 of the The Bone World Trilogy Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Stone Age Setting,
- Dystopian,
- Tech vs Primitive Cultures,
- Rebellion
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stone-age hero thrown into a collapsing hi-tech dystopia
- Rebellions where ancient instincts clash with advanced nanotech
- Hunts across strange worlds for the one person who holds the key
To save his tribe, Stopmouth must abandon it. Leaving the stone-age world of the surface behind, he makes his way to the Roof, the mysterious hi-tech world suspended above.
But the Roof has its own problems. The nanotechnology that controls it is collapsing. And now a rebellion against the ruling Commission is about to erupt.
Hunted by the Commission's nano-enhanced agents, Stopmouth must succeed in a desperate hunt of his own: to find the woman he loves. Only she knows how to save his tribe. But in this super-sophisticated world, all he has to fight with are his raw strength and fierce courage.
A powerful, original and pulse-racing novel from the author of The Inferior.
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