Revolution 19

by Gregg Rosenblum

  “Good,” said the Senior Advisor. “And the non-Citizen juveniles?”

  “We can only assume they have left the City limits.”

  “And their Citizen accomplices?”

  “With the grid still down, we don’t know their exact status. Most likely they are attempting to remove their implants and flee as well.”

  “Let them,” said the Senior Advisor.

  “Sir, they can be easily apprehended,” said the lieutenant. “Even if they succeed in removing their implants, the grid will soon be back online, and we know the area they are in …”

  “I have decided to let them go,” said the Senior Advisor.

  “Yes sir,” said the lieutenant. “And the parents? Their status is unknown.”

  “I am inclined to simply observe them, although a further round of re-education is also an option.”

  “Yes sir.” The lieutenant hesitated. “Sir, to clarify, we are simply letting the juveniles escape?”

  The Senior Advisor gazed at the lieutenant. “Lieutenant, are you questioning my orders?”

  “No sir.”

  “Good,” said the Senior Advisor. “No, we will not let the juveniles simply escape. Have them followed. Discreetly. They interest me. I wish to observe them in the wild.”

  The lieutenant began to discuss other topics, but the Senior Advisor held up his hand and stopped it mid-sentence.

  “Coffee,” he said. “I will try coffee again. I grow closer to understanding this sense of taste that humans so enjoy.”

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  THANK YOU TO HOWARD GORDON AND JIM WONG, WITHOUT WHOM THIS project would never have gotten off the ground. Big thanks also to the team at Alloy—Josh Bank, Sara Shandler, and especially Joelle Hobeika—and to Sarah Landis and Farrin Jacobs at HarperCollins, for their masterful editorial guidance. It’s a better book, and I’m a better writer, because of you all.

  Writing this took many, many nights and weekends, and I want to say a special thank you to my wife and daughter: Wendy, thank you for helping me find the time, and knowing what I was going through, and Cadence, thank you for understanding, and for being the awesomest kid in the world.

  Thanks to my colleagues at OCS for their friendship and support, and of course huge thanks to you, the reader, for taking a chance on my book.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Ryuji Suzuki

  GREGG ROSENBLUM works at Harvard, where he wages epic battles against technology as an editor/webmaster/communications/quasi-IT guy. He graduated from UC San Diego and has an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. He lives in Boston with his wife and daughter.

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  CREDITS

  Cover design by Elizabeth H. Clark

  Cover photo by Rich Legg

  COPYRIGHT

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  Revolution 19

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Rosenblum, Gregg.

  Revolution 19 / by Gregg Rosenblum. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Twenty years after robots designed to fight wars abandoned the battlefields and turned their weapons against humans, siblings Nick, Kevin, and Cass must risk everything when the wilderness community where they have spent their lives in hiding is discovered by the bots.

  ISBN 978-0-06-212595-8

  EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062125989

  [1. Robots—Fiction. 2. Survival—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Revolution nineteen.

  PZ7.R7191763Rev 2013 2012025328

  [Fic]—dc23 CIP

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