num_pages: 496
description: War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying  national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.WHEN AN AI DIES ITS CITY DIES WITH ITWHEN A CITY FALLS IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHINDWHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACKWhen the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests its city and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes the god brought one thing back to its favorite child Sunai. For the seventeen years since Sunai has walked the land like a ghost unable to die unable to age and unable to forget the horrors he's seen. He's run as far as he can from the wreckage of his faith drowning himself in drink drugs and men. But when Sunai wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with he finds himself on a path straight back into the world of gods and machines.The Archive Undying is the first volume of Emma Mieko Candon's Downworld Sequence a sci-fi series where AI deities and brutal police states clash wielding giant robots steered by pilot-priests with corrupted bodies.Come get in the robot.
language: English
title: The Archive Undying
publisher: Tordotcom