Résultats pour "The Twin" dans Science-fiction

My uncle and my father. I used to be able to tell them apart. Not anymore. Because they're both the same. They both want to destroy me....

Olive Joshi is an imaginative sixteen-year-old with OCD. She checks and double-checks that the stove burners are off, avoids driving for fear of causing an accident, and constantly worries about hurting the people she loves. Olive finds refuge from her anxiety in writing stories about Coseema, a magical princess on the distant planet Lyria. Coseema is fearless, confident, powerful, and perfect—everything Olive thinks she’ll never be.

The last American, postapocalyptic government, Commerce City, owns 16-year-old Eric Skye, who wants nothing more than to maintain his life in slavery and to keep a watchful and protective eye on his twin sister. The ruling dictator, Minister Taybor, obsesses over creating an international alliance to insure his own survival. To put down a rebellion and prepare for international visitors, he decides to reassign work for Commerce City's orphan boys and girls. Eric is taken away from his twin sister and pressed into military service. Only his love keeps him from surrendering to the anguish he suffers.

Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nano-engineered superdrug on humanity. Civilization is now a collection of mindless addicts confined to automated treatment centers that tower over drone-dominated cityscapes. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them.