num_pages: 512
description: Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie.The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the nuclear wasteland on the other side the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together.Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts from twentieth-century human mage-crafted replica Chuck Taylors on his feet Schwarzenegger posters on his walls Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But hes also tasked with a higher callingto maintain the Veils that protect mage-kind from the hazards of the wastes beyond. As a cadet in the Mage Kings army Nik has finally found what he always wanteda purpose. But when confronted by one of his former instructors gone rogue Nik tumbles into a dark secret. The humans werent nuked into obliviontheyre still alive. Not only that outside the domes a war rages between the last enclaves of free humans and vast machine intelligences.Outside the dome unprepared and on the run Nik finds Jem. Jem is a Runner for the Human Resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier by the circumstances of war Jem is more than just a humanher cybernetic enhancement mods make her faster smarter and are the only things that give her a fighting chance against the artificial beings bent on humanitys eradication.Now Nik faces an impossible side with the mages and let humanity die out? Or stand with Jem and the humansand risk endangering everything he knows and loves?
language: English
title: Mage Against the Machine
publisher: Gallery / Saga Press