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The Shadow Academy by Adrian
Cole (SF))
Genres: Sci-fi
Paperback, 224 pages
Expected publication: September 1st 2014 by
Hades Publications
ISBN 1770530649 (ISBN13: 9781770530645)
Publisher: ) Hades Publications (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
DESCRIPTION/Blurb
After the Plague Wars they waited for the invasion.
And as the new Dark Age dawns... there is one who
can bring light.
In a world little more than a whisper away from
ours, the islands of Grand Brittannia lie just off the
shores of the deeply forested content of Evropa, the
dark and forbidding realm of legends scarcely
remembered.
Grand Brittannia, itself almost completely a place of deep forest and mystery, has at
its heart the crumbling, anachronistic administrative city of Londonborough. From
here the Central Authority wields power over the Islands and exercises its control
rigidly and clinically. Since the rigours of the Plague Wars, some hundred years
in the past, when almost the entire population of the world was wiped out and the
gradual decline of civilization began, industry and technology have atrophied, their
development now strictly vetted by the Authority.
Out on the far-flung coasts, a network of ancient fortress ports wait in
readiness for an invasion that some say will never come, their ancient,
declining Academies committed to the rigours of training the defenders
of the Islands. These Academies are subjected to regular inspections
by Enforcers from Londonborough, and their native inhabitants are
constantly being swelled by the young military graduates from the
Authority's own Military Academies in the center. Into a cauldron of
intrigue and subterfuge that is the town and Academy of Petra comes
Chad Mundy, the Authority's replacement for Drew Vasillius, a veteran
teacher who has committed suicide. At least, that is what he's been told...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. He is currently
the Director of College Resources in a large secondary school in
Bideford, where he now lives with his wife, Judy, son Sam, and daughter
Katia. He remains best known for his Dream Lords trilogy as well las his
young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants.Author
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