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Kingmaker
Hardcover
Series: The Magnetic Duck, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781919521725
Publisher: Traug Press
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
New York City, 1941. the world is not as we remember.
Two decades before, an alien spaceship crashed in Siberia and changed human history. Now, the world teeters on the edge of apocalypse. A malignant Imitation Intelligence known as Kingmaker threatens to plunge Earth into financial collapse and total war.
To stop it, a desperate team of employees in the world's premier Insurance Company creates a counter-weapon: The Magnetic Duck.
When the digital war spills into the physical world, Duck is accidentally uploaded into the body of an industrial robot and cast into the back streets of New York. Caught between a corrupt alien mogul and a predatory Cybernetic entity that wants to rewrite reality, Duck finds unexpected sanctuary among the city's forgotten - the homeless and the broken.
The battle for the future has begun, and humanity's best hope is a machine that wants to die.
Awakened with a fragmented conscience and a drive to destroy his enemy, Duck becomes an outcast in the shadows of Manhattan - an avenging angel lurking on the rooftops, tracking the crimes of the powerful and feeding the truth to the few honest men left in authority.
But what do friendship, love or faith mean to an emotionless robot? Can the impersonal phrase 'excess human mortality' ever be more than just a number?
Kingmaker is a high concept, character driven, dense, fast paced, 64,000 word story that lays the foundation for further adventures of its enigmatic protagonist - the Magnetic Duck.
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