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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright © 2023 by Mike Carey Excerpt from Translation State copyright © 2023 by Ann L...
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright © 2023 by Mike Carey Excerpt from Translation State copyright © 2023 by Ann Leckie Excerpt from Paradise-1 copyright © 2023 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited Cover design by Nico Taylor—LBBG Cover images by iStock Hachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce the creative works that enrich our culture. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. Orbit Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10104 orbitbooks.net First Edition: March 2023 Simultaneously published in Great Britain by Orbit Orbit is an imprint of Hachette Book Group. The Orbit name and logo are trademarks of Little, Brown Book Group Limited. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to hachettespeakersbureau.com or email [email protected]. Orbit books may be purchased in bulk for business, educational, or promotional use. For information, please contact your local bookseller or the Hachette Book Group Special Markets Department at [email protected]. Library of Congress Control Number: 2022949332 ISBNs: 9780316504386 (trade paperback), 9780316504560 (ebook) E3-20230215-JV-NF-ORI Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Acknowledgements Discover More Extras Meet the Author A Preview of "Translation State" A Preview of "Paradise-1" Also by M. R. Carey Praise for the Novels of M. R. Carey Begin Reading Table of Contents Praise for the Novels of M. R. Carey The Rampart Trilogy “[Carey builds] a broken world that is both marvelously expansive and claustrophobically menacing.… Fans of postapocalyptic science fiction will find plenty to hold their attention.” —Publishers Weekly “This series just gets better and better. Clever, compassionate, and genuinely immersive.” —Joanne Harris “This is a bold, unique world—be prepared to be engrossed.” —SciFiNow “A beautiful book. Gripping, engaging, and absolutely worth the time it takes to burrow yourself into its reality. I can’t recommend it highly enough.” —Seanan McGuire “M. R. Carey hefts astonishing storytelling power with plainspoken language, heartbreaking choices, and sincerity like an arrow to the heart.” —Locus “The cadence and pacing of [Koli’s] voice adds a depth and richness to the strange and malevolent world.” —Booklist “A thought-provoking and deeply engaging story. Profoundly and doggedly humane.” —C. A. Fletcher “An exciting post-apocalyptic coming-of-age trilogy.” —Shelf Awareness “Narrator Koli’s inquisitive mind and kind heart make him the perfect guide to Carey’s immersive, impeccably rendered world.… A captivating start to what promises to be an epic post-apocalyptic fable.” —Kirkus The As M. R. Carey The Girl With All the Gifts Fellside The Boy on the Bridge Someone Like Me THE RAMPART TRILOGY The Book of Koli The Trials of Koli The Fall of Koli THE PANDOMINION Infinity Gate As Mike Carey FELIX CASTOR NOVELS The Devil You Know Vicious Circle Dead Men’s Boots Thicker Than Water The Naming of the Beasts To Chris and Pam, who take us places and bring us back to ourselves 0 They say that children born in wartime are likely to have problems throughout their lives; to struggle both with the uncertainties of the world and with their own emotions and to search in vain for happiness. This has not been true for me. I was born in one of the biggest conflicts this universe has ever seen, the war between the vast empire called the Pandominion and the machine hegemony (which may have been greater still), and what I remember most of all is the moment when I was suddenly able to reflect on my own existence. I had been a thing but now I was a sentient, a self in the language of
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