Series
Shade's Children milieu
Garth Nix · 1 novel · 1 short story · 1997–2012
Shade's Children is set on an Earth where all adults vanished overnight fourteen years earlier, leaving children to be harvested at puberty by the machines that now run the world, unless they escape into hiding with Shade, a mysterious AI-like protector. Garth Nix's 1997 novel is a single, self-contained book rather than a series, though its bleak post-apocalyptic premise has drawn comparisons to his other work.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Shade's Children milieu at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
Shape
Mood
Too few works here carry a tone to place this series.
the catalog’s own centre, waiting for company1 of 2 works carry a tone