Strange Fire

Informationen zum Autor Tommy Wallach is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and novelist. His fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Wired, Salon, and other magazines. As a musician, he has put out an EP with Decca Records and performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. We All Looked Up is his debut novel. Read, hear, and stalk him at TommyWallach.com. Klappentext What if the asteroid heading toward Earth in Tommy Wallach's New York Times bestselling novel, We All Looked Up, actually hit and demolished our planet? What if, after thousands of years, two civilizations rose from the ashes? What if those cities found out about each other? Through the viewpoints of multiple characters, Strange Fire describes the beginnings of an inevitable war between these two civilizations, a war that will pit faith against science, zealotry against technology...and brother against brother. They said that the first generation of man was brought low by its appetites: for knowledge, for power, for wealth. They said mankind's voracity was so great, the Lord sent his own Daughter to bring fire and devastation to the world. The survivors were few, but over the course of centuries they banded together to form a new civilization—the Descendancy—founded on the belief that the mistakes of the past must never be repeated. Brothers Clive and Clover Hamill, the sons of a well-respected Descendant minister, have spent their lives spreading that gospel. But when their traveling ministry discovers a community intent on rediscovering the blasphemous technologies of the past, a chain of events will be set in motion that will pit city against city…and brother against brother. Along with Gemma Poplin, Clive's childhood sweetheart, and Paz Dedios, a revolutionary who dreams of overthrowing the Descendancy, Clive and Clover will each play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of this holy war, and the fate of humanity itself. The Giver meets The City of Ember in this start to an epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Tommy Wallach.Strange Fire 1. Clover CLOVER HAMILL ATTEMPTED TO CALCULATE his share of the modest birthday pie his mother had just brought out from the wagon. Three hundred and sixty degrees of pie divided by nine people was forty degrees each, but that would only be if the slices were cut evenly, which they seldom were. Clive, being the man of the hour, would be in charge of dividing the pie up, and that didn’t bode well for his younger brother. It wasn’t that Clive would apportion himself the largest piece—though no one could have blamed him for doing so on his own birthday—but that he would undoubtedly give outsize pieces to their mother for making the pie in the first place, and to their father and Eddie and Burns because the men needed to keep their strength up, and to Michael because he’d throw a tantrum otherwise, and to Gemma and Flora just because they were girls. Clover figured he would be lucky to end up with a twenty-degree slice. Given that the height of the pie was about four inches and the radius about five, his share would amount to . . . roughly seventeen cubic inches of pie. Attendant Bernstein could have taken the math even further—reckoning the caloric content of the pie based on its constituent ingredients, for example—but Clover hadn’t yet received the education to carry out such a calculation. His mother put the pie down on the trestle table. A lone beeswax candle was sunk into the middle of the doughy lattice, but the breeze had already put out the flame. Everything would have been so much better back at their house in the Anchor. The pie would have been a cake at least twice the size of th...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tommy Wallach
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahren
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781534418295
• ISBN: 978-1-5344-1829-5
• Seiten: 400
• Serien: The Anchor & Sophia; The Anchor & Sophia
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher