Mage Against the Machine Audiobook (Free)
- Gibson Frazier, Robin Eller
- 15 h 38 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2018-10-30
Summary:
Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his globe is a lie.
The entire year is 2120. The human beings are dead. The mages have retreated in the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them through the nuclear wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the final century placing their lives back again together.
Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts approximately Mage Against the Machine from twentieth-century human being existence: mage-crafted imitation Chuck Taylors on his feet, Schwarzenegger posters on his walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his mind. But he’s also tasked with a higher calling—to keep the Veils that shield mage-kind from the hazards from the wastes beyond. Being a cadet in the Mage Ruler’s army, Nik has finally found what he always wanted—an objective. But when confronted by one of is own former instructors gone rogue, Nik tumbles right into a dark key. The human beings weren’t nuked into oblivion—they’re still alive. Not only that, outside the domes a war rages between your last enclaves of free humans and vast machine intelligences.
Outside the dome, unprepared and away from home, Nik finds Jem. Jem is normally a Runner for the Individual Level of resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier from the circumstances of war, Jem is more than just a individual—her cybernetic enhancement mods make her quicker, smarter, and are the just things that give her a fighting possibility against the artificial beings bent on humanity’s eradication.
Right now Nik faces an difficult decision: side with the mages and let humanity die out? Or stand with Jem as well as the humans—and risk endangering everything he knows and loves?
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