Enemy

Enemy has been chosen asan Editorsup1;s Choice book for the Fall 2002 season. The Editors Choicebooks were chosen by the BookSurge Editorial Board, which consists of BookSurgeeditors as well as guest editors from the publishing and bookselling industry.The decisions of the Board are independent and final. Our Editors Choicebooks can stand up with the best in literature published today. "(Paul Evan Hughes is) amajor new voice in science fiction. The marriage of mind and machine createsa war for the essence of existence." A boy, a girl, and the endof the world... enemy is the emotional story of a war outside of spaceand time, and the lives that it tears apart in its wake. what are readers saying? Jeff Schwaner, Editor,December, 2000. "One of the best scifi booksI've read in years... This kid will churn out many more like this." Sharon Stanhope, February2001. "The story was artfullywoven and detailed--interesting in its precision and touching of deep-seatedhuman emotion." The Judas, the last survivors of a machine-initiated extinction incomprehensibly far into the future, live out their lives in the spaces between the stars and the Whens.Tough, battle-hardened, exhausted after centuries of war, they pursue the Enemy, machine-based life forms whose sole Purpose is to upload the last few survivors into their precious Program Seven. In Book One: Coming of the Storm, something goes tragically wrong when Judas Magdalene is forced to crash-land in the Pacific Ocean of a primitive Earth.When a government prison island is wiped off the map by the unexplained atomic explosion, president David Jennings takes extreme measures to protect his country from invasion, inexorably drawing himself into the war against the Enemy. In Book Two: Planet of the Shadows, the Enemy have voraciously fallen upon the Earth, and the survivors of Enemy holocaust, including Simon Hayes, a military doctor with a tortured past, and Maggie Flynn, an ex-terrorist with a damning secret, draw together to stop the Enemy from uploading their world. In Book Three: Time of the Damned, the Judas must face the Enemy once more in an apocalyptic fury that will determine the future of existence. At its heart, enemy is the tragic story of the love between Simon and Maggie, a bond that transcends death and the void between the stars.Overcome with the need to avenge Maggie's death at the hands of the Enemy, Simon is filled with blind rage and hatred for the nemesis that is destroying all of existence. The characters in enemy are realized through an intriguing and at times lyrical use of flashback.Non-linear and postmodern, enemy challenges the reader with multiple storylines playing across multiple timelines. Tragic, touching, frightening...enemy will take you to place beyond time and space, a place where the love between two people is sometimes the only thing worth fighting for. Only ever really one story: a boy, a girl, and the end of the world.