LIFEL1K3

LIFEL1K3
Jay Kristoff

‘Hey, you. Yes, you. Put this grimy, beautiful, devastating, hilarious, screaming, writhing, all-out post-apocalyptic girl-buddy-road-warrior-lost princess-techno-thriller in your face and read it right now. It is every kind of badass’Laini Taylor, NYT bestselling author of STRANGE THE DREAMER and the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogyA thrilling new series from Jay Kristoff, internationally best-selling author of The Nevernight Chronicle and The Illuminae Files.It’s just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built…When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins, and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she loves…and learn the dark secrets of her past.

Copyright (#ue54885af-5818-54fb-aa3e-15298d8dd7ea)

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Source ISBN: 9780008301361

Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008301347

Version: 2018-05-18

Epigraph (#ue54885af-5818-54fb-aa3e-15298d8dd7ea)

I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Learn to swim.

Learn to swim.

—Maynard James Keenan

Contents

Cover (#ubf720057-610d-572c-83ea-f0c48ae64d65)

Title Page (#u7aaa6514-44a5-5289-b961-bed4969b35de)

Copyright

Epigraph

Map

0.1 (#u77d13549-70d6-5bde-94b0-a838e16e364d)

Part 1. A Coin-Operated Boy

1.1. Manifest (#u29fff2c8-0a06-5b9e-828f-cbeebee966ff)

1.2. Democracy (#ued111ce5-a374-5811-a7df-816c358cfc15)

1.3. Windfall (#u90f39257-76d9-5dd8-ad6b-0953fdc7549c)

1.4. Wake (#u313273a2-29bc-5d6c-a53a-232a93d05efe)

1.5. Ruin (#u303964e5-3a14-50bf-86ca-5d658c0e8d2f)

1.6. Impact (#ua9600c2a-2b59-544f-bc6d-f28d8f7d0bb3)

1.7. Preacher (#u2e9ca43d-f747-50a2-9bd8-8b2a0a427991)

Part 2. The Terrible Dogfish

1.8. Breathe (#litres_trial_promo)

1.9. Kraken (#litres_trial_promo)

1.10. Garden (#litres_trial_promo)

1.11. Cinders (#litres_trial_promo)