2083 finds seventeen-year-old Oliver Crane living in the Cradle, a utopian compound nestled in the Pacific Northwest. Yet more than comfort he wants answers—answers to what has become of the outside world, a world ravaged by rising seas. That answer comes in the form of Nya, a teen raised in the coastal migrant camps. Together they start digging, and soon uncover the Cradle’s terrifying thirty-year mission. Refusing to sit and watch the tragedy unfold, the only questions are whether they can stop the compound scientists from launching a global assault on the remnants of humanity, and how dearly this attempt will cost them. Arc Zero is a series of Science Fiction novels written by author Nick Gullo, cohost of the Infinite Worlds Podcast.
The year 2064. A strange birth… the start of a global phenomenon
2083. Nearly twenty years after the first no-face birth, we meet 17 yr-old Oliver Crane. Living in the Cradle, a utopian compound in the Pacific Northwest, residents want for nothing. But more than comfort Ollie wants answers: answers to what has become of the outside world, a world ravaged by rising seas and rampant disease. Then comes Nya, a teen raised in the climate camps. Her arrival in the colony sends Ollie on a mission -- to meet and befriend the new girl, and finally get answers.
Ollie finally talks with Nya, while Dr. IX, a holographic AI, discusses the long history of oppression and genocide.
Nya tells the curious students about an infamous viral video in which a mob apprehended four men and two women, perpetrators of heinous crimes within the camps, chained the criminals in a circle and…
Nya enters a Wonka-like fantastical dream-center unlike anything she’s ever experienced
Ollie, Nya and Jonah travel via vacuum pod across the colony.
In a bid to impress, Ollie shows Nya a top-secret Cradle project that carries world-altering potential
The Crane family watches a video of the bombing, prompting Ollie to ask hard questions.
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