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Since the Day of Wonder, when all the electric lights stopped working, there have been rumors of unrest in the neighboring domains—and no one has seen any of the Elite, the ruthless technocrat class that have ruled Urba for centuries. What most of the inhabitants don't realize is that their world of Urba is actually a giant spacecraft, an ark built more than a thousand years ago to save as much of the Earth's population as possible before the sun went nova. The Elite were originally the ship's crew, but as the centuries passed, they became decadent, corrupt, and cruel, and the truth about Urba became hidden. And now Jad and the courageous Prince are about to find out what happened to the Elite—and what's happening to the people of Urba.
Synopsis
What is left of humanity is being transported to a new world on board the Mothership Urban. Over the centuries, most of Urban's inhabitants have forgotten where they come from and where they're going: they don't even know they are on a spaceship. This loss of group memory is no disease, but a carefully engineered social experiment devised and implemented by the cruel, tyrannical Elite, the technocrats who rule the Motherships. But when the Elite suddenly lose their powers and Urban's downtrodden populace rise up against their now-impotent leaders, something happens that no one bargained on: the Elite are replaced by a new threat--"a threat from deep space itself..John Brosnan is the author of the "Sky Lord trilogy.