Partials (Partials Sequence)

Wells, Dan

ISBN 10: 0062135694 / ISBN 13: 9780062135698

Published by Balzer + Bray, New York, 2012

About this Item

Trade Paperback. Illustrated glossy wrappers. Glued binding. 480 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing. CONDITION: NEAR FINE, binding square and tight, pages crisp and unmarked, faint edge wear. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

Seller Inventory # 002780

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Partials (Partials Sequence)
• Publisher: Balzer + Bray, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062135694
• ISBN 13: 9780062135698
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by war, humans are on the brink of extinction and the key to survival rests in the hands of one 16 year-old girl.

Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the world's population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. The threat of the partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to the disease in over a decade. Humanity's time is running out.

When sixteen-year-old Kira learns of her best friend's pregnancy, she's determined to find a solution. Then one rash decision forces Kira to flee her community with the unlikeliest of allies. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that the survival of both humans and partials rests in her attempts to answer questions of the war's origin that she never knew to ask.

Combining the fast-paced action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Battlestar Galactica, Partials is a pulse-pounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question--one where our sense of humanity is both our greatest liability, and our only hope for survival.

About the Author

Dan Wells is the author of Partials and Fragments, as well as the John Cleaver series: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster, and I Don’t Want To Kill You. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Campbell Award and has won two Parsec Awards for his podcast, Writing Excuses. He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books, and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child.