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The City of Factories

The City of Factories

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Science FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN10: 1968143203
ISBN13: 9781968143206
Publisher: Ruadan Books
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 208
Language: English

1859, Nigeria. In the fishing village of Itu Agan, nine-year-old Alabi and his inventor father test a new steamboat prototype when a platoon of automaton soldiers raid their village. The metal invaders execute the village chief and capture Korede, Alabi's father, leaving him and his mother alone and devastated.

There is no choice but to accept the new order. All the village boys begin work as fishermen and plantation farmers as soon as they become teenagers and, for nine long years, Alabi must put the promise of invention nurtured in his childhood to rest.

When he discovers that his father Korede is alive, working for the colonizer regime, Alabi is determined to reconnect with him. After years of hard work to obtain a travel permit and with threats of his mother's imprisonment should he not return in two months, Alabi sails to the city of factories, unprepared for the resistance that is brewing and the adventure that awaits...

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