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Kornak: Machine World
Paperback
Series: Songs of the Universe
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ISBN13: 9798995738046
Publisher: Briantissot.com
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Briantissot.com
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Earth is dying, and Kael Ash no longer cares whether he survives. After losing his family and witnessing the collapse of human civilization, the aging soldier leaves a ruined Earth aboard a small spacecraft, setting a random course into deep space with no destination and no intention of returning. He awakens on Danu, a brutal world of towering fungal forests, colossal predators, hypercanes, meteor storms, and ecosystems of staggering complexity. Stranded alone, Kael struggles to survive on a planet where every creature lives by a single rule: adapt or perish. Yet beneath Danu's violence lies a deeper truth. Its countless life forms are not driven by conquest or control, but by adaptation, interdependence, and survival. In a world where death is ever-present, life endures without malice, shaped by ancient cycles of storms, predation, and renewal. When the Kornak-an ancient machine-organic civilization-arrive, Kael learns that Danu faces a far greater threat than extinction when he discovers the Kornak seek to transform the living planet into a vast Machine World. Kornak: Machine World is a sweeping adventure of exotic alien life, ecological wonder, and metaphysical discovery that asks what is lost when a living world is forced to become something else.
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