Dire Earth Cycle
| Title | Dire Earth Cycle
The Darwin Elevator |
|---|---|
| Author | Jason M. Hough |
| Publication | Titan |
| Size | 486p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9781781167632 |
| Topics |
American fiction--Science fiction Alien encounters--Fiction End of the world--Fiction Epidemics (Medicine)--Fiction Legendary beings--Zombies Post-apocalyptic world--Fiction |
| Notes | The first novel is set years after a plague has afflicted most of the earth's population, dubbed subs, the disease turns people into zombie like sub-humans, apart from rare immunes and the refugees inhabiting the aura safe zone around the space elevator. Humanity exists as refugees in Darwin, Australia, and technological space dwellers who occupy space stations and space farms constructed around the elevator. They live a fragile coexistence, Darwin exporting air and water for the space stations and the space farms feeding the ground population. The lead character Captain Skyler Luiken, an immune, heads a team of immune scavengers who can survive outside the aura where they battle sub-humans while collecting items of value to trade, or for repairing the aging elevator complex and space stations. Skyler and crew become entangled in political plots and power games of Russell Blackfield, the head of the Nighcliff elevator base, and Neil Platz, 'owner' of the space stations. As the aura protection begins to fail, Neil Platz and scientist Dr. Tania Sharma discover that another Builders vessel is due to arrive. [wikipedia] |
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