02281nam a22002657a 4500 20260223134949.0 260223b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781668049594 (hardcover) HSLRC FIC .S89we 2025 23/eng/20240809 813/.6 Swyler, Erika, author. 60876 We lived on the horizon : a novel / Erika Swyler. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2025. ©2025 324 pages ; 24 cm rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc "The acclaimed author of the "dazzling" (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a catastrophic war. The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Over generations, an elite class has evolved from the descendants of those who gave up the most to found mankind's last stronghold, called the Sainted. Saint Enita Malovis, long accustomed to luxury, feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio- prosthetist approaching. The lone practitioner of her art, Enita is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix, filled with her knowledge and experience. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data. Soon, Enita and Nix are drawn into the growing war that could change everything between Bulwark's hidden underclass and the programs that impose and maintain order. A complex, imaginative, and unforgettable novel, We Lived on the Horizon grapples with concepts as varied as the human desire for utopia, body horror, and what the future holds for humanity and machine alike"-- Provided by publisher. Dystopian fiction. 60877 Novels. 60878 lcc BK 98816 98816 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC HSLRC HSLRC CIR 2026-02-23 Sketchbook/Fullybooked 1298.40 0 FIC .S89we 2025 HS14993 2026-06-02 14:12:55 1 1298.40 2026-02-23 BK