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The Key to Survival
Rests in the Hands of
Shade's Children
In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill.
The mysterious Shade — once a man, but now more like the machines he fights — recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power — and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become...
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| February 3, 2026 | Edited by MARC Bot | set source_records based on initial machine_comment |
| July 30, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate edition with work OL2628785W |
| August 4, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fix duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |




