Malefactor
(Sprache: Englisch)
Robert Repino concludes the War with No Name series in an explosive final novel.
Over a decade has passed since the ant queen began her apocalyptic war with the humans. In the aftermath, she leaves behind a strange legacy: a race of...
Over a decade has passed since the ant queen began her apocalyptic war with the humans. In the aftermath, she leaves behind a strange legacy: a race of...
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Robert Repino concludes the War with No Name series in an explosive final novel.Over a decade has passed since the ant queen began her apocalyptic war with the humans. In the aftermath, she leaves behind a strange legacy: a race of uplifted animals, the queen s conscripts in the war effort, now trying to make their way in the world they destroyed. While the conflict has left deep scars, it has also allowed both sides to demonstrate feats of courage and compassion that were never possible before. And now, after years of bloodshed, the survivors have a fleeting chance to build a lasting peace.
But peace always comes with a price. The holy city of Hosanna where animals and humans form a joint government finds itself surrounded by wolves who are determined to retake the land. A powerful matriarch has united the rival wolf packs, using a terrible power harnessed from the Queen herself.
Soon, the looming violence pulls in those who sought to escape. The war hero Mort(e) suspects a plot to destroy Hosanna from within, and recruits a team of unlikely allies to investigate. Falkirk, captain of the airship Vesuvius, must choose between treason and loyalty to save the city. And D Arc, sailing aboard the al-Rihla, learns that the wolves may have triggered a new cycle of life for the Colony, bringing a final reckoning to animal and human alike. Once reunited, the three outcasts begin a journey into wolf territory to face the last remnant of the queen s empire. But while destiny has drawn them together, it may destroy them as well, for even love, courage, and honor may not be enough to stop the forces of destruction set to be unleashed on the world.
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CHAPTER 1THE STORY OF MERCY
THE WOLVES BOUNDED through the snow, kicking it behind them in enormous white clumps. Mercy s paws burned from the cold. Then they went numb, and it felt as if she were flying over the white expanse, her snout pointed toward the scent of fur and flesh, so thick she could swallow it. The trees shook with each step. Their bare branches wobbled against the white sky, the sun no brighter than the full moon. All around her, her sisters and brothers, her cousins, her entire family sprinted beside her. Their breath steamed from their mouths. Her ribs brushed against one of the hunters, sending warmth to her pounding heart. Everywhere, heads bobbed. Tails hung low and stiff for balance. The fastest runners breathed the hardest. Hehhuh-hehh-uh-hehh-uh.
This would work. It had to work. The pack would live.
The necklace she wore bounced with each step. It held a single yellowed fang. The sharp end kept spiking her in the chest, a sign that she was still alive. That this was not a dream. The scent of prey lingered like a fog. The pack growled as one when they passed through it. Their voices made the earth rumble.
Too many of her people had died to bring her to this moment. Her brother, her parents. A litter of pups. Her former mate, whose name they no longer spoke. The wolves who colonized this land, moving south in the wake of the great war. Their spirits watched her now. She could feel their breath in the bitter wind.
Her lungs burned as the pack reached the top of a hill. Cresting the ridge, the wolves poured down the other side. The gravity pulled Mercy along. She had never run so fast.
They found the hoof prints at the base of the hill. Mercy noted the loping, relaxed strides of a herd of deer. But as the pack overtook the trail, the hoof marks drifted farther and farther
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apart as the deer broke into a full sprint. Panic. Desperation. Mercy could smell both.
The trees thinned into a clearing. She spotted the deer. Dozens of them, with their white tails. A meal for every hunter. The pack would drive the prey into the thicker snow, where their hooves would become stuck.
All the wolves snouts pointed toward the closest victim, a thin, weak buck with the antlers of a male half his age. This one would fall first. Mercy s tongue flopped out of her mouth as she imagined twisting the deer s neck until the bones crackled.
She jockeyed toward the front. Her new mate led the way. Wex, they called him. Wex the Cruelblood. His jaws snapped at the deer s legs, taunting him. It riled the other hunters. They barked at him, urging him to kill. To paint his fangs red.
The deer slowed. Soon his life would belong to the pack. Wex would make it quick. Not out of sympathy, but because there were so many others to kill. A bounty they had waited for all winter.
Mercy s mind cleared. Only her senses remained, allowing her to focus on the musk of the deer s fur. The hooves denting the earth. The snow whispering beneath her feet.
The pack must live.
THE DAY BEFORE, Mercy saw a human for the first time. And he was beautiful.
She was returning from a patrol on a bitterly damp and overcast afternoon. The clouds were heavy with snow, ready to unburden themselves. Winter had dug its claws into the earth and would not let go. Like any other predator, it claimed its territory. It fed on the weak. It laughed at those who made plans for the warmer months. Spring was never promised to anyone.
Two other wolves joined Mercy on her patrol. Wex s body
The trees thinned into a clearing. She spotted the deer. Dozens of them, with their white tails. A meal for every hunter. The pack would drive the prey into the thicker snow, where their hooves would become stuck.
All the wolves snouts pointed toward the closest victim, a thin, weak buck with the antlers of a male half his age. This one would fall first. Mercy s tongue flopped out of her mouth as she imagined twisting the deer s neck until the bones crackled.
She jockeyed toward the front. Her new mate led the way. Wex, they called him. Wex the Cruelblood. His jaws snapped at the deer s legs, taunting him. It riled the other hunters. They barked at him, urging him to kill. To paint his fangs red.
The deer slowed. Soon his life would belong to the pack. Wex would make it quick. Not out of sympathy, but because there were so many others to kill. A bounty they had waited for all winter.
Mercy s mind cleared. Only her senses remained, allowing her to focus on the musk of the deer s fur. The hooves denting the earth. The snow whispering beneath her feet.
The pack must live.
THE DAY BEFORE, Mercy saw a human for the first time. And he was beautiful.
She was returning from a patrol on a bitterly damp and overcast afternoon. The clouds were heavy with snow, ready to unburden themselves. Winter had dug its claws into the earth and would not let go. Like any other predator, it claimed its territory. It fed on the weak. It laughed at those who made plans for the warmer months. Spring was never promised to anyone.
Two other wolves joined Mercy on her patrol. Wex s body
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Autoren-Porträt von Robert Repino
Robert Repino grew up in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Peace Corps, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His fiction includes short stories in The Literary Review and Hobart, as well as the middle grade series Spark and the League of Ursus. He lives in New York and works as an editor for Oxford University Press. Malefactor concludes the War with No Name series, and follows the novels D'Arc and Mort(e) and the novella Culdesac.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Repino
- 2021, 456 Seiten, Maße: 14,5 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Soho Press
- ISBN-10: 1641290986
- ISBN-13: 9781641290982
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for MalefactorThis is epic stuff, though it s presented throughout on a very personal level, with the weird interspecies pairings seeming somehow natural in spite of everything. Odd but effective world building in the grand fantasy manner.
The Toronto Star
A deftly scripted and inherently fascinating dystopian novel . . . [Malefactor] is essentially a romantic fantasy played out against the background of a Post-Apocalyptic world.
Midwest Book Review
Repino continues to explore the themes of individual and societal change. Each page is filled with questions of what change looks like in a post-apocalyptic world, how it is unstoppable, and how we do or do not accept it . . . For those who ve been waiting for this book, the action-packed, trial-ridden ending was worth the wait. Malefactor is a satisfying ending to the saga.
Apex Magazine
Malefactor is exactly the kind of finale any well-done series might hope for. It s a big, thought-inspiring mental meal and a hair-raising roller coaster. It s satisfying enough to leave you happy and fulfilled, and good enough to make you wonder and hope what else can happen in this world?
Narrative Species
Malefactor is a riveting tale with a lot of amazing work put into it . . . Highly recommended!
Nerd News Social
Praise for the War With No Name series
Mort(e) is complex, beguiling, and often bloody . . . [An] utterly absorbing debut.
The Boston Globe
Mort(e) catapults the reader into a wild, apocalyptic world . . . A strangely moving story.
The Washington Post
Marvelously droll . . . This novel is all kinds of crazy, but it wears its crazy so well.
Slate
An epic science-fiction thriller . . . Mort(e) will stick with you long after you close the pages.
Tor.com
Read this novel and you will never look at your pet the same way again.
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Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse and Robogenesis
"Repino crafts achingly real characters from housecats and doggies, and gets you sympathizing with both sides of the in-equation. This is a perfect example of the power of pulp, wild adventure for domesticated humans."
KQED Arts
"Fantastic . . . Well-drawn characters and emotional heft are hallmarks of this unusual series about the power of myth, love, and redemption in a dangerous time."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Repino crafts achingly real characters from housecats and doggies, and gets you sympathizing with both sides of the in-equation. This is a perfect example of the power of pulp, wild adventure for domesticated humans."
KQED Arts
"Fantastic . . . Well-drawn characters and emotional heft are hallmarks of this unusual series about the power of myth, love, and redemption in a dangerous time."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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