Cities of Protection - Softcover

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It is the year 3098. The average human life now spans three hundred years or more. Scientists announce that Earth's oxygen will run out in less than one hundred years.In the chaos that follows, many flee the planet. But millions are left behind, unable to secure posts on other colonized worlds.A few desperate souls struggle in the wake of Earth's crumbling society: a morally conflicted corporal from the former Global Marine Corps; a brilliant botanist and father to a frail adopted daughter; a machinist and his small family in search of a new home; a mentally unstable government worker betrayed by those closest to him; and a spoiled debutante living in the service of a reptilian queen who has created her own barbarian horde.How will they survive?Who will be left to find a way off the planet?And where will they go?All of these characters and more come together in a desperate struggle that pushes them out of their natural elements and forces them to confront their own personal fears while they endeavor to survive the literal end of the world.

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