Remy is a young girl who lives in a town that believes in crystal count: that you are born with one-hundred crystals inside and throughout your life, through accidents and illness, your count is depleted until you reach zero.
As a city encroaches daily on the village, threatening their antiquated life, and the earth grows warmer, Remy sets out to accomplish something no one else has: to increase her sick mother’s crystal count.
An allegory, fable, touching family saga and poetic sci-fi adventure, Shane Jones underlines his reputation as an inspired and unique visionary.
Rong Jinzhwen, perhaps one of the great code-breakers in the world is a semi-autistic mathematical genius recruited to the cryptography department of China's secret services, Unit 701, and assigned to break the elusive 'Code Purple'. He rises to be China's greatest and most celebrated code-breaker, until he makes a mistake and descends into madness. The author, pseudonym of Jiang Benhu, worked for decades in Chinese secret security.
With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and mad hope across a startling, vibrant landscape.
Jackson Aims forgot everything. Where he was, what he was doing, and just about everything else.
He found himself in a destroyed metropolis with thousands of others with the same condition.
In the years to come truths have been unfolding: No one is over the age of twenty-six. There is an invisible yet impassible barrier located Downtown where others have disappeared. And a building-sized timer had appeared suddenly, and is tied directly to Jackson’s fate.
Jackson must uncover his past to correct a broken future, and must soon, less he becomes one that wholly vanishes.