Child of the River
Confluence Book 1
245 pages · Released May 29, 2014 · Gateway
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Child of the River is a complex science-fantasy novel set in an elaborate far-future world, best suited for mid-to-older teens. The story centers on identity and self-discovery, with some military conflict, moral ambiguity, and mature themes woven throughout. While not gratuitously violent or explicit, the book's intricate worldbuilding, philosophical undertones, and occasional darker moments require a reader comfortable with sophisticated narrative and thematic complexity.
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Confluence - a long, narrow man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micro-machines and ten thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is the home of a singular young... Confluence - a long, narrow man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micro-machines and ten thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is the home of a singular young man named Yama. An infant who was discovered in a bier on the river, he was raised by the prelate of Aeolis until it was learned that his ancestry was unique. Yama appeared to be the last remaining scion of the Builders, closest of all races to the worshipped architects of Confluence. Now, awed and fearful of his increasing ability to awaken the machines the Builders left behind, Yama searches for his identity and a history that is both his and his world's.
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- Fiction
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Yama (fictitious character), fiction
- Confluence (imaginary place), fiction
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ISBN 9780575120389 · Gateway