'Cloud Atlas' meets 'Mad Max'. If you love your novels to be glazed with the future and spiced with the past, get your hands on 'As Yet Unknown' by Wattpad featured author Pix English. It's tasty! The year is 2986. Ping is Nori; upper caste, deadly and fanatical in her quest to protect the fragile Lotus Cities from harm. They're all that's left in a toxic world, perched on Asiatorea, the country formerly known as New Zealand. Wei is pakeha, living an illegal existence in the Badlands outside the Lotus Cities. Ping has sworn to prove his people's existence and help wipe them out, before they can do more damage to an already vulnerable world. She requests permission to embark on a dangerous mission, living outside for a year, globing a doci of pakeha life. When Ping and Wei are forced into an unlikely alliance she is forced to question the benign genocide her utopian monarchy uses to protect the future and in doing so, recreates the past and a new life.

THE YEAR IS 2050. Human-like androids have become integrated into society and every household, becoming part of our daily lives. They look exactly like us from the pigment of their artificial skin to every follicle of their hair. They protect. They serve. They obey. They learn. Tyler North is a struggling young photographer in New York. When he wins a voucher for a personalized android, Tyler reluctantly purchases one and names it Aiden. Instead of a dull subservient Android, he was blown away by Aiden's adaptiveness, and is not like the regular androids Tyler had met before. However, Tyler can't hide Aiden's free-willed gift against the corporation that built him who planned to use Aiden for a more sinister purpose. Whoever controls Aiden can change Earth for the better...or worse. Mechanical Gods is a near-future Science Fiction Epic by D. Alec Lyle, infused with stylized heart-pounding action, sleek thriller, and provocative intrigue. Picked as part of Wattpad's Up and Coming List (2018), and Editor's Choice List (2020). STATS: 132,385 words [ 511 pages in a paperback ] [Highest -- #1 in Science Fiction] [ #1 in Philosophical ] [ #1 in Android ] [ #1 in LGBT ] [ #1 in artificialintelligence]