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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. A Piper at the Gates: Book One of The Children of Hamelin. Book.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Seven starships bear Earth's survivors towards their only hope, a distant planet called Uroun. Life in The Fleet is hard, especially for the children, who may not leave their family cabins until they graduate. Until then, the cadets must spend almost all of their waking hours in The Gravity Shower. Through that virtual reality interface they attend School, where their teachers drill them with astrophysics and history. In their spare time, they play in the Sandbox, where they fight for rank in combat games, or preen and parade their avatars on the social-network boulevard. Jack Voyager One wants nothing to do with the online world. He lives for his collection of vinyl records, to sing with these echoes of Earth's great musicians, and imagines playing the song that waits in his heart, if only he could hear it. Lucy Gemini wants to break free of her family cabin and the tyranny of her military mother. She knows that her father is keeping a terrible secret about The Fleet. She is willing to sacrifice everything to join him in the real world and learn the truth. On the first day of their sixteenth year, strange events begin happening aboard Jack and Lucy's ship, The Hamelin. A mysterious Piper plays an enchanting melody that haunts through both the online world and the real. It summons Jack and Lucy beyond their prison cells, to discover what lies hidden in the vast of night, and who they might become, if they get there.The first book in The Children of Hamelin trilogy, A Piper at the Gates is a thrilling coming-of-age adventure, a captivating vision of desperate lives enduring impossible odds, and a musical journey through the stars. It's a story for anyone who believes in their heart, or wants to, that love and music have the power to change us. .and maybe even save the human race.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Twisting, tumbling through the endless black, the boy pursed his lips, and with his last breath, he whistled.'- from A Piper at the GatesA song is haunting the children of starship Hamelin.They hear it everywhere-in their VR chambers, in their dreams, even through the locked doors of their family cabins. The melody calls to them. Beckons them. Especially Jack and Lucy.Lucy lives under the eye of her military mother, dreaming of escape. Jack builds strange instruments out of salvaged code and sorrow. Neither of them knows who The Piper is. but both know they're being called.As the Fleet drifts through deep space-fleeing a dying Earth, bound for a planet they'll never live to see-Jack and Lucy begin to unravel the mystery behind the song. What they discover will tear their lives apart. and offer a chance to become something more than the system ever allowed.Piper at the Gates is a lyrical sci-fi coming-of-age novel about love, rebellion, and the music that frees us.For readers who love.- Lyrical speculative fiction exploring grief, identity, and imagination- Stories like A Monster Calls, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and Lanny- Quiet revolutionaries, mythic echoes, and the haunted edges of technologyAboard the starship Hamelin, families live isolated lives, policed by strict hierarchy and digital illusion. Children study in immersive VR chambers, cut off from their parents and each other. But something has slipped through the system: a song, ancient and impossible, leaking through code and memory.Told through dual perspectives and set against a backdrop of interstellar exile, Piper at the Gates blends sci-fi, surrealism, and psychological realism in the first novel of The Children of Hamelin trilogy.…