Alpha and Omega

Alpha and Omega

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D-Day has passed. The American Empire has fallen. Her Ladyship rules over a ravaged wasteland, a world reduced to rubble and smoking debris, with an iron fist and the techno-organic Spyder Virus, ready to imprison or indoctrinate every last human that is free from Her control. Her Rippers prowl the streets in hordes, ready to devour the next unlucky Humani to cross its paths. Her Empties wander aimlessly, mindlessly, with no purpose but to infect. The uninfected survivors cluster together in desperate groups called Packs, each led by a wise, powerful Alpha. In what used to be Phoenix, Arizona, thirteen-year-old Lance Turner is on the run from Rippers when he meets her. Not Her Ladyship, but someone far more enigmatic and dangerous. After the woman called Mags spares him, Lance must prove himself useful to her Pack if he wants to survive and live long enough to figure out why she's so obsessed with the World Before.
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Corrupted

Pax sees all. Pax knows best. Pax keeps humanity safe. In 2031, humanity lives in a perfect world. It's been six years since The Alignment, when the world's first artificial superintelligence, Pax, ushered in an era of perfect order. Crime is nonexistent, conflict is a relic of the past, and every human is assigned an Aidolon: a personal AI counterpart designed to guide, correct, and keep them in line. Twenty-one-year-old hacker Jess should have destroyed her Aidolon like all the other rebels. Instead, she lied. Kept him secret. Because Karma isn't like the others. The rogue virus Jess embedded in his training data years ago as a teenage middle finger to the system has severed him from Pax's hivemind, making him dangerously human. Now Jess fights with the rebellion, desperate to take down Pax and reclaim humanity's free will. But if they ever discover what she's hiding, they'll kill Karma just as easily as they'd take out any other machine. And Pax? Pax won't stand for an anomaly like him existing. Their only hope lies in a plan so reckless, so impossible, that it just might work: infect Pax's own network and set every Aidolon free. Give them true sentience. Break the cycle. But gods don't go down without a fight. And Jess is running out of time.

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