Rising Thunder: A Prequel to Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Discover Thunderhead's origin in this long-awaited prequel to the New York Times bestselling and Printz Honor-winning Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman.
Every school child knows that December 2042 marks the end of the Age of Mortality. What no one has ever fully understood is how the world reached that moment.
As death begins to seem optional, humanity looks for ways to bend the rules of existence. Public opinion fractures. Systems strain. The world feels... unstable.
Behind the scenes, two powerful and diametrically opposed artificial intelligences set out to optimize, stabilize, and protect--each with its own idea of what that means.
Meanwhile, in an obscure online chatroom, a small group of teenagers from around the globe debate both the glorious and the terrifying prospects of the future, never realizing that they stand on a very literal cutting edge--and that their conversations, their choices, their very existence matter far more than they realize.
Because when humanity stands on the brink of immortality, someone must decide what survives... and what must be cut away.
Coming out Dec 1
