Up Above
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Last published Sat, Apr 16, 2016
After the world has turned on itself, survivors build a flying city meant to sail above the sick yellow clouds and escape the horrors below. Now, years later, civil war threatens the safety of the survivors up above and their safe haven.
Thomas Arven just became a man.
Assigned to the dangerous but exciting life of a Flyer, he aims to make a life of his own on the The Savior. When his new job reveals an ugly side to the flying city he loves, Thomas is forced to face choices he never imagined having to make.
Ignorance is bliss, but not even the sky can save humanity.
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