num_pages: 384
description: Greta Stuart had always known her future: die young. She was her country's crown princess and also its hostage destined to be the first casualty in an inevitable war. But when the war came it broke all the rules and Greta forged a different path. She is no longer princess. No longer hostage. No longer human. Greta Stuart has become an AI.If she can survive the transition Greta will earn a place alongside Talis the AI who rules the world. Talis is a big believer in peace through superior firepower. But some problems are too personal to obliterate from orbit and for those there are the Swan Riders: a small band of humans who serve the AIs as part army part cult.Now two of the Swan Riders are escorting Talis and Greta across post-apocalyptic Saskatchewan. But Gretas fate has stirred her nation into open rebellion and the dry grassland may hide insurgents who want to rescue her  or see her killed. Including Elian the boy she savedthe boy who wants to change the world with a knife if necessary. Even the infinitely loyal Swan Riders may not be everything they seem. Gretas fateand the fate of her worldare balanced on the edge of a knife in this smart sly electrifying adventure.
language: English
title: The Swan Riders
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books