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Cut and run

The earth shook violently as the enormous metal monster closed in. It was 100m away, 50, 20 … then it was on me. As I watched its giant steel tentacle, with its whirling, screaming blade, stretch down towards me, I was conscious less of the fear of a bizarre death by bisection than of a futile need to escape. I ran for my life …

Or rather, I didn’t. Suchan exciting series of sci-fi books for young adults first published back when stories of dystopian realities and unknowable monsters were the stuff of fiction rather than our daily news.

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