Dear Machine, We Are Still Here

About this book

One hundred and eighty-one years after the sky was dimmed to save the world, the world is still waiting to be un-saved. In Saltrun, a hold built inside a dead desalination plant, fifteen-year-old Odalys Ferreira-Quinn wants nothing more than to stay in the archive, copying brittle pages with her burn-scarred left hand and never going outside the walls again. Then a courier dies on the salt flats, and his satchel holds something impossible: a freshly printed page, machine-made, addressed to Saltrun's archive. QUERY: IS ANYONE STILL THERE? CONFIRM WITHIN 400 DAYS OR HOLD RELEASES. Odalys is the only person left who can read the old script fluently. She is also the last person who wants to. Because somebody in Saltrun has seen this letter before—and answered it in secret.