The Flux
✍ Scribed by Ferrett Steinmetz
- Publisher
- Watkins Media;Angry Robot
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0857664646
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Love something enough, and your obsession will punch holes through the laws of physics. That devotion creates unique magics: videogamemancers. Origamimancers. Culinomancers.
But when 'mancers battle, cities tremble...
ALIYAH TSABO-DAWSON: The world's most dangerous eight-year-old girl. Burned by a terrorist's magic, gifted strange powers beyond measure. She's furious that she has to hide her abilities from her friends, her teachers, even her mother -- and her temper tantrums can kill.
PAUL TSABO: Bureaucromancer. Magical drug-dealer. Desperate father. He's gone toe-to-toe with the government's conscription squads of brain-burned Unimancers, and he'll lie to anyone to keep Aliyah out of their hands -- whether Aliyah likes it or not.
THE KING OF NEW YORK: The mysterious power player hell-bent on capturing the two of them. A man packing a private army of illegal 'mancers.
Paul's family is the key to keep the King's crumbling empire afloat. But...
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