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A PIPER AT THE GATES IBD

CIVILISED APE
05 / 2025
9781764088329
Inglés

Sinopsis

'Twisting, tumbling through the endless black, the boy pursed his lips, and with his last breath, he whistled.'- fromáA Piper at the GatesA song is haunting the children of starship Hamelin.They hear it everywhere-in their VR chambers, in their dreams, even through the locked doors of their family cabins. The melody calls to them. Beckons them. Especially Jack and Lucy.Lucy lives under the eye of her military mother, dreaming of escape. Jack builds strange instruments out of salvaged code and sorrow. Neither of them knows who The Piper is... but both know theyâÇÖre being called.As the Fleet drifts through deep space-fleeing a dying Earth, bound for a planet theyâÇÖll never live to see-Jack and Lucy begin to unravel the mystery behind the song. What they discover will tear their lives apart... and offer a chance to become something more than the system ever allowed.Piper at the Gatesáis a lyrical sci-fi coming-of-age novel about love, rebellion, and the music that frees us.For readers who love...- Lyrical speculative fiction exploring grief, identity, and imagination- Stories likeáA Monster Calls,áThe Ocean at the End of the Lane, andáLanny- Quiet revolutionaries, mythic echoes, and the haunted edges of technologyAboard the starship Hamelin, families live isolated lives, policed by strict hierarchy and digital illusion. Children study in immersive VR chambers, cut off from their parents and each other. But something has slipped through the system: a song, ancient and impossible, leaking through code and memory.Told through dual perspectives and set against a backdrop of interstellar exile,áPiper at the Gatesáblends sci-fi, surrealism, and psychological realism in the first novel ofáThe Children of Hamelinátrilogy.

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