W. R. Stanek

After the Machines

The machines inherited the world. The humans inherited the ruins.

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A dark YA/adult crossover science fiction saga about memory, identity, machine civilization, human personhood, and the fight to remain more than what the world has named you.

Audience
Ages 14+ / YA and adult crossover
Genre
Post-apocalyptic science fiction / dystopian science fiction
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Reading order

After the Machines books

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Awakening

Book 1, Part I

The machines were supposed to have forgotten humanity. Cedes is about to learn that forgotten things can still be claimed.

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Fracture

Book 1, Part II

Cedes wanted answers. Now answers are everywhere, and none of them can be trusted.

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Remnants

Book 2, Part I

Central is gone as Cedes knew it. Refuge should mean safety. It does not.

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Inheritance

Book 2, Part II

At the bottom waits a gate. Opening it will prove the danger has always been deeper than they knew.

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Reckoning

Book 3, Part I

Beyond the gate, the rules change. The question is what survival made of them.

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Origin

Book 3, Part II

At the center, the old story fails. No word will own them again.

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