K-machines
By: Damien Broderick
Series: Players in the contest of worlds -- [2]
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781560258056
Subjects: Science fiction; Games; Fiction
Description: August Seebeck is a 20-something student from a world not quite the same as ours. In "GODPLAYERS, August tumbled into a vastly larger universe, and learned that he wasn't, after all, an orphaned only child. He and his turbulent siblings, and the breathtaking Lune and others still stranger, are Players in the Contest of Worlds. They are mysteriously transformed humans whose ancient task is enigmatic battle with the dread, passionate K-Machines. Now crisis deepens.