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Greta Stuart n’est plus otage. Elle n’est plus princesse héritière de la Confédération panpolaire. Elle n’est même plus humaine. Afin de sauver sa vie et celle de ses amis, elle a accepté de devenir une intelligence artificielle, la première depuis près d’un siècle. Mais ce choix a un prix… Le corps de la jeune fille ne supportera pas longtemps cette transformation. Bientôt, elle devra l’abandonner pour prendre possession de celui d’un Cygne, ces êtres moitié soldats, moitié messagers qui vénèrent Talis, l’intelligence artificielle qui règne sur la planète.
Mais tandis qu’elle chevauche à travers des étendues glaciales et désertiques, aux côtés de Talis et de deux de ses serviteurs, Greta est rattrapée par son passé. Une révolte gronde : le peuple panpolaire semble bien décidé à arracher sa princesse des mains du maître du monde… quitte à la tuer. Et parmi les rebelles, Elián, le garçon qu’elle a sauvé, celui qui lui a ouvert les yeux et qui rêve de changer le monde. Greta saura-t-elle maîtriser sa nouvelle nature et empêcher un cataclysme de se produire ?
Afficher en entierGreta Stuart had always known her future: die young. She was her country's crown princess, and also its hostage, destined to be the first casualty in an inevitable war. But when the war came it broke all the rules, and Greta forged a different path.
She is no longer princess. No longer hostage. No longer human. Greta Stuart has become an AI.
If she can survive the transition, Greta will earn a place alongside Talis, the AI who rules the world. Talis is a big believer in peace through superior firepower. But some problems are too personal to obliterate from orbit, and for those there are the Swan Riders: a small band of humans who serve the AIs as part army, part cult.
Now two of the Swan Riders are escorting Talis and Greta across post-apocalyptic Saskatchewan. But Greta’s fate has stirred her nation into open rebellion, and the dry grassland may hide insurgents who want to rescue her – or see her killed. Including Elian, the boy she saved—the boy who wants to change the world, with a knife if necessary. Even the infinitely loyal Swan Riders may not be everything they seem.
Greta’s fate—and the fate of her world—are balanced on the edge of a knife in this smart, sly, electrifying adventure.
Afficher en entierTreacherous twists await Greta as the stakes get even higher in this stunning follow-up to the “masterful” (School Library Journal, starred review) novel, The Scorpion Rules.
Greta Stuart has become AI. New transmitters have silvered her fingerprints. New receptors have transformed her vision. And the whole of her memory has become one book in a vast library of instant knowledge. Greta is ready to rule the world.
But the new technology is also killing her.
Greta is only sixteen years old, but her new enhancements are burning through her mortal body at an alarming rate. Of course the leader of the AIs, an ancient and compelling artificial intelligence named Talis, has a plan. Greta can simply do what he’s done when the time comes, and take over the body of one of the Swan Riders, the utterly loyal humans who serve the AIs as part army, part cult.
First though, Greta will have to find a way to stay sane inside her new self. Talis’s plan for that involves a road trip. Escorted by Swan Riders, Greta and Talis set out on a horseback journey across the strange and not-quite-deserted landscape of Saskatchewan. But there are other people interested in Greta, people who want to change the world…and the Swan Riders might not be as loyal as they appear…
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