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After
Kenny, Padraig2025
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A girl and the human-looking android she considers her father have to make hard decisions after encountering a community who are opposed to technology. Jen and her father are making their way across a deserted world after a technological collapse brought civilization as people knew it to an end.The Flood took out all all technology, but also many people who were connected to a central information hive. Those who are left behind must find each other and build a new life. But Jen's father isn't related to her by blood - he is a human-appearing AI, a glitch in the system, and a secret that must be kept, even from those she wishes she could trust...Exploring themes of what it means to be human, the value of every individual and where true danger lies - in our technological creations, or the ones who create them - this is a powerful and hopeful dystopian adventure.
Main title:
After / Padraig Kenny.
Author:
Kenny, Padraig, author
Work:
Edition:
Original.
Imprint:
London : Walker Bks, 2025.
Collation:
235 p. : 198 x 129 mm. 211 gm.
Audience:
Young People.Reading grade level: 9-11.Interest age level: 9-12.Interest grade level: KS2 KS3.
Biography/History:
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer from Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian's assistant, he now writes full-time. His first novel, Tin, and The Monsters of Rookhaven were both Waterstones Books of the Month. He has twice won the CBI Honour Award for Fiction and has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. His first novel for Walker, Stitch, was both a Blackwell's and Eason Book of the Month.
ISBN:
9781529517804 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
Adventure and adventurers-FictionScience fictionFantasy fictionDystopian fictionFuture life-FictionRobots-FictionChildren's / Teenage fiction: Science fictionChildren’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure storiesChildren’s / Teenage fiction: FantasyInterest age: from c 9 yearsScience fiction (Children's / Teenage)Fiction 9+Science Fiction Stories
BRN:
864813