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....
ISBN: | 9780007243129 |
Publication date: | 7th August 2006 |
Author: | Garth Nix |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 352 pages |
Genres: |
Science Fiction |