Shade's Children

On your 14th birthday, you’re dead meat…

Chilling SF adventure from international bestselling author Garth Nix.

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…

La cea de-a 14-a aniversare, sunteti carne moarta ... Aripa SF aventura a autorului bestsellerului international Garth Nix. Intr-o pustietate urbana futurista, Overlords malefici au decretat ca niciun copil nu va trai o zi dupa a paisprezecea aniversare. La acea zi de nastere trista, copilul face obiectul unei recolte obscene care are ca rezultat construirea unei creaturi asemanatoare unei masini, al carei unic scop este sa omoare. Umbra misterioasa - candva barbat, dar acum mai mult ca masinile pe care le lupta - recruteaza cativa copii norocos sa scape.