Shade's Children - Nix, Garth
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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!…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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!
Autorenporträt
Garth Nix, geboren 1963 in Melbourne, arbeitete u.a. als Verleger, Buchhandelsvertreter und Zeitungsredakteur. Ab 2002 freier Schriftsteller. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Familie in der Nähe von Sydney.