Plot Summaries (The Unremembered Gate)
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 corporations, Darius Caxton is a naive but rebellious scholar and Jael Todorov is a ruthless bounty hunter. Working for one of the many megacorporations, Darius helps discover and identify an ancient text that seems to reshape our understanding of linguistic -- and human -- development, Jael is hired by a rival megacorporation to steal the text. Besieged by a strike force sent by yet another megacorporation, 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. The infection catches the attention of a mythical hacker collective that Darius has helped in the past. While the megacorporations bid for control of the text -- claiming to find cure, but hoping for more power -- the duo, assisted by the hacker M3747r0n, realize that the text is also a transmitter, signaling its alien creators to invade. 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.)
