Mage Against the Machine
(Sprache: Englisch)
Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie.
The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman...
The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman...
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Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie. The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the nuclear wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together.
Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts from twentieth-century human life: mage-crafted replica Chuck Taylors on his feet, Schwarzenegger posters on his walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But he's also tasked with a higher calling-to maintain the Veils that protect mage-kind from the hazards of the wastes beyond. As a cadet in the Mage King's army, Nik has finally found what he always wanted-a purpose. But when confronted by one of his former instructors gone rogue, Nik tumbles into a dark secret. The humans weren't nuked into oblivion-they're still alive. Not only that, outside the domes a war rages between the last enclaves of free humans and vast machine intelligences.
Outside the dome, unprepared and on the run, Nik finds Jem. Jem is a Runner for the Human Resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier by the circumstances of war, Jem is more than just a human-her cybernetic enhancement mods make her faster, smarter, and are the only things that give her a fighting chance against the artificial beings bent on humanity's eradication.
Now Nik faces an impossible decision: side with the mages and let humanity die out? Or stand with Jem and the humans-and risk endangering everything he knows and loves?
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Mage Against the Machine I. AMERICAN WIZARD A mage in black followed a trail of footprints through the darkness of a thickly wooded forest, unseen.
The trail had been left by a dead man who'd been speaking to his revolver, last the mage had seen him. Anxiously eyeing the shadows between the trees, he wondered if the rune-etched firearm had responded.
The mage was young-barely out of training-with dark, carefully tousled hair and a slight frown that might have seemed permanent to those who didn't know him well. His replica high-top sneakers squelched wetly in the sodden moss as he tracked the dead man's steps, which shimmered with a golden light through Nikolai's enchanted spectacles.
Nikolai Strauss was being stupid. He knew that he was being stupid. His first actual assignment and he'd already lied to his team-to his friends. Already defied his orders to: Observe. Do not engage. Report immediately should the buyer be spotted.
Technically, Nikolai wasn't really even on this case. He'd been a cadet until a few months ago. The Edge Guard insignia on the breast of his uniform was so freshly made that the enchantments still tickled when he brushed his fingers across the slick enamel surface.
This was supposed to be some simple field experience for training-a low-risk opportunity for Nikolai to observe more experienced Edge Guard agents working the field as they staked out an illegal artifact exchange. They probably wouldn't have even brought him with them all the way from the capital if the buy hadn't been going down in Marblewood, Nikolai's hometown.
The captain had suggested that Nikolai's relationships with the citizens of Marblewood might come in handy should they find themselves short on leads.
Though Nikolai hadn't kept in touch with anybody from his hometown (and would have preferred to keep it that way) the intel implicating the Eaglesmith family had smothered his protests.
He was indifferent to the family as a whole. His scorn
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was reserved for his former classmate, Joseph Eaglesmith, rich-kid golden-boy athlete and longtime boyfriend of Nikolai's estranged childhood sweetheart.
Nikolai hated the prick. And now, for his pettiness, here he was. Alone. In the dark. Following a possibly demented Battle Mage with a magic gun.
Sure, Nik was also a Battle Mage, well versed in the magical arts of violence. He was a member of the Edge Guard, a powerful government order charged with the defense and maintenance of magical domed Veils that hid the magi from the ruined human world, which had been reduced to lifeless, magically radioactive wastelands a century prior, in 2020.
The Edge Guard also investigated crimes that fell under the jurisdiction of multiple Veils.
But mostly, Nikolai got coffee.
Nikolai was happy to just get coffee for his senior teammates, leaving them to handle the dull responsibilities of the stakeout. To nod and say "Yessir" at all the right moments, occasionally jotting a note into the margin of whatever novel he currently had his nose buried in.
The problem was, Nikolai was now pretty sure that their entire reason for being there was bullshit. That there'd never been any artifact smugglers-that the intel was just a ruse. Bait, specifically set to draw Nikolai back to his hometown, away from the watchful eyes of the capitol. The Eaglesmith family's involvement was a juicy worm wriggling at the end of a hook.
Nikolai hadn't said much about his life back in Marblewood to his fellow Edge Guards. From what little he'd let slip, however, his thinly veiled grudge against the rising flyball star had featured prominently. After a couple of drinks, at least.
The mage who'd
Nikolai hated the prick. And now, for his pettiness, here he was. Alone. In the dark. Following a possibly demented Battle Mage with a magic gun.
Sure, Nik was also a Battle Mage, well versed in the magical arts of violence. He was a member of the Edge Guard, a powerful government order charged with the defense and maintenance of magical domed Veils that hid the magi from the ruined human world, which had been reduced to lifeless, magically radioactive wastelands a century prior, in 2020.
The Edge Guard also investigated crimes that fell under the jurisdiction of multiple Veils.
But mostly, Nikolai got coffee.
Nikolai was happy to just get coffee for his senior teammates, leaving them to handle the dull responsibilities of the stakeout. To nod and say "Yessir" at all the right moments, occasionally jotting a note into the margin of whatever novel he currently had his nose buried in.
The problem was, Nikolai was now pretty sure that their entire reason for being there was bullshit. That there'd never been any artifact smugglers-that the intel was just a ruse. Bait, specifically set to draw Nikolai back to his hometown, away from the watchful eyes of the capitol. The Eaglesmith family's involvement was a juicy worm wriggling at the end of a hook.
Nikolai hadn't said much about his life back in Marblewood to his fellow Edge Guards. From what little he'd let slip, however, his thinly veiled grudge against the rising flyball star had featured prominently. After a couple of drinks, at least.
The mage who'd
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Autoren-Porträt von Shaun Barger
Shaun Barger is a Los Angeles-based novelist who detests cold weather, idiot plotting, and fascism. He splits his days between writing, resisting the siren's call of Hollywood's eternally mild summer climes, and appeasing a tyrannical three-pound Chihuahua with peanut butter and apple slices. Mage Against the Machine is his first novel. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @ShaunBarger.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shaun Barger
- 2019, Reprint, 512 Seiten, Masse: 14 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster US
- ISBN-10: 1534403051
- ISBN-13: 9781534403055
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.07.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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