Best-selling author Garth Nix will unleash his latest novel, Shade's Children, in the UK this month and, to give you a taste of Nix's apocalyptic sci-fi vision, we've got an exclusive first look at the opening chapter of this shadowy and intriguing novel. Just 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:click here to clap your eyes on the special extract.

Shade's Children is set in a futuristic, barren end-world where only children survive. Unexplained entities called the Overlords have taken control of the planet, eradicating all human life over the age of 14 and imprisoning the remaining children in mass dorms, only to abduct each child on their 14th birthday and transform their body into a prowling cyborg killer in a bloo🌳dy and horrifying harvest of brain and muscle.

Above: Nix developed the idea for Shade's Children after discovering an abandoned railway tunnel

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Nix shot to fame with the success of his teen-thriller series, the Old Kingdom trilogy of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen, which b♕uilt up a legion of fans on either side of the teen divide. "I don't specifically write for children... or for adults," says Nix. "I aim to write a book that I would have liked at 12, and still like at 38, 58, 88 and beyond."