explorer / books · 2022
Plague Birds
Jason Sanford’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 2021 by Apex Books · 280 pages
Nebula · 2022
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Synopsis
In a far-future Earth where artificial intelligences govern the land and humanity lives in scattered villages, a young woman becomes a plague bird — a feared enforcer who punishes those who break the ancient pacts between humans and the AIs. But her first mission forces her to question everything she thought she knew about justice.
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