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(Expand each sentence of your summary paragraph into a full paragraph. All but the last paragraph should end in a disaster. The final paragraph should tell how the book ends.) | (Expand each sentence of your summary paragraph into a full paragraph. All but the last paragraph should end in a disaster. The final paragraph should tell how the book ends.) | ||
In a world dominated by megacities and controlled by AI-driven | In a world dominated by megacities and controlled by AI-driven megacorporations, Darius Caxton is a naive but rebellious scholar and Jael Todorov is a ruthless bounty hunter. When Darius is hired by ElCorp to find, Hassan, an old friend who has gone missing while on a dig, he finds his friend in an almost comatose state and discovers an ancient text that, if real, suggests a radical alteration in our understanding of linguistic -- and human -- development. Meanwhile, Jael is hired by the TS Group, a rival megacorporation, to recover the text. Besieged by a strike force sent by yet another megacorporation, Hassan is killed, and Darius and Jael reluctantly team up to save themselves and the text. | ||
While on the run from competing forces, Darius and Jael realize that reports of a rapidly spreading global pandemic that causes humans to lose the ability to process language is linked to the text, which tells the story of a stranger who is mistreated his hosts. Eventually they discover that the virus is being spread through the computer systems that Darius is using to analyze the text. The virus does not spread from human to human but from computer to human. | While on the run from competing forces, Darius and Jael realize that reports of a rapidly spreading global pandemic that causes humans to lose the ability to process language is linked to the text, which tells the story of a stranger who is mistreated his hosts. Eventually they discover that the virus is being spread through the computer systems that Darius is using to analyze the text. The virus does not spread from human to human but from computer to human. When Jael's ship is shot down, they are rescued by a group of the Unseen, people who live in the wastelands between the megacities and who no longer engage with technology. | ||
While the megacorporations vie for possession of the text -- claiming to want to find cure, but hoping for more power -- the duo, assisted by the Low God M3747r0n, | |||
. After a risky escape, Jael destroys the building containing the text. | |||
Following the destruction of the text and much of the city of Denver, the expanding team attempts to stop the pandemic and the invasion while fleeing from the authorities. They find shelter with a group of outcasts, citizens who have walked away from the high-tech world of the megacorporations and who live in the wasteland between the megacities, and eventually learn that the Low Gods and the Unseen have overlapping interests. Although the virus has been stopped, the invasion signal has not. | Following the destruction of the text and much of the city of Denver, the expanding team attempts to stop the pandemic and the invasion while fleeing from the authorities. They find shelter with a group of outcasts, citizens who have walked away from the high-tech world of the megacorporations and who live in the wasteland between the megacities, and eventually learn that the Low Gods and the Unseen have overlapping interests. Although the virus has been stopped, the invasion signal has not. | ||
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One-Sentence Summary
A haunted scholar and a ruthless mercenary team up to prevent a cataclysmic virus unleashed by an ancient text.
One-Paragraph Summary
In a world dominated by megacities and controlled by AI-driven corporations, an ancient text is discovered that seems to reshape our understanding of linguistic -- and human -- development. This find is made by a naive but rebellious scholar who soon teams up with a ruthless bounty hunter sent to steal the discovery. Before they can learn its secrets, the text unleashes a virus that strips humans of their ability to process language. While the megacorporations bid for control of the text -- claiming to find cure, but hoping for more power -- the duo, assisted by a member of a mythical hacking collective known as the Low Gods, realize that the text is also a transmitter, signaling its alien creators to invade. Racing against time, the expanding team attempt to stop the pandemic and the invasion through sacrifice and metamorphosis.
One-Page Summary
(Expand each sentence of your summary paragraph into a full paragraph. All but the last paragraph should end in a disaster. The final paragraph should tell how the book ends.)
In a world dominated by megacities and controlled by AI-driven megacorporations, Darius Caxton is a naive but rebellious scholar and Jael Todorov is a ruthless bounty hunter. When Darius is hired by ElCorp to find, Hassan, an old friend who has gone missing while on a dig, he finds his friend in an almost comatose state and discovers an ancient text that, if real, suggests a radical alteration in our understanding of linguistic -- and human -- development. Meanwhile, Jael is hired by the TS Group, a rival megacorporation, to recover the text. Besieged by a strike force sent by yet another megacorporation, Hassan is killed, and Darius and Jael reluctantly team up to save themselves and the text.
While on the run from competing forces, Darius and Jael realize that reports of a rapidly spreading global pandemic that causes humans to lose the ability to process language is linked to the text, which tells the story of a stranger who is mistreated his hosts. Eventually they discover that the virus is being spread through the computer systems that Darius is using to analyze the text. The virus does not spread from human to human but from computer to human. When Jael's ship is shot down, they are rescued by a group of the Unseen, people who live in the wastelands between the megacities and who no longer engage with technology.
While the megacorporations vie for possession of the text -- claiming to want to find cure, but hoping for more power -- the duo, assisted by the Low God M3747r0n, . After a risky escape, Jael destroys the building containing the text.
Following the destruction of the text and much of the city of Denver, the expanding team attempts to stop the pandemic and the invasion while fleeing from the authorities. They find shelter with a group of outcasts, citizens who have walked away from the high-tech world of the megacorporations and who live in the wasteland between the megacities, and eventually learn that the Low Gods and the Unseen have overlapping interests. Although the virus has been stopped, the invasion signal has not.
Plot Synopsis
(Expand the one-page plot synopsis of the novel to a four-page synopsis. Basically, you will again be expanding each paragraph from step (4) into a full page.)
