Partials by Dan Wells

Partials by Dan Wells

For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runner comes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells.

Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.

Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike--and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.

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DAN WELLS writes a little bit of everything, but his Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, the first of which is now a major motion picture, are his most well-known works. He co-hosts the educational podcast Writing Excuses, for which he earned a Hugo Award, and now helps operate a yearly week-long writing conference. He has written and produced a stage drama, A Night of Blacker Darkness, and works as a staff writer on the TV show Extinct, in addition to novels, novellas, and short stories. He's lived in the United States, Mexico, and Germany, and now lives in Utah with his wife and six children, as well as 439 boardgames.