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description: Over a decade ago people started manifesting strange incredible powers. One side effect of this was an awareness of alternate dimensionssome of these powers could reach into other realities other versions of Earth. Though infinite dimensions are present most of these are unstable existing only as vague possibilities.A few of these worlds however are stable. These real alternate versions of Earth are sometimes very very different from the one we know. And a bizarrely large number of them it turns out are doomed. And so the Apocalypse Guard was founded: an organization of thousands of scientists engineers and extraordinary individuals who save planets.They comb the dimensions searching for stable worlds to contact. When they find one that is facing some kind of cataclysm the Guard either finds a way to save the planet or evacuates it. The process can take years but so far the Guard has saved some dozen planetsthough it has lost half as many to utter destruction.Emma is the Guards coffee girl. On summer internship at mission control she gets to witnessfrom a safe distancetheir activities. During the events surrounding the rescue of a planet however a shadowy group attacks the Guard and throws it into chaos. Emma finds herself cast through dimensions to be stranded on a doomed planet the Guard had been planning to save. Cut off from mission control woefully inexperienced Emma has to try to meet up with the Guard or find another way off the planet before cataclysm befalls it.In the tradition of the Reckoners The Apocalypse Guard is a fast-paced action-oriented story with roots in comic book traditions. This one is a little more science fiction and fantasy than it is superhero and it will dig deeper into the mythology begun in the Reckoners. It is not a sequel to the Reckoners in that it has new characters and a new story but it might help answer some questions left by the end of Calamity.
language: English
title: The Apocalypse Guard
publisher: Delacorte