Above a horrified New York City, genetics and ethics collide as the fallen emperor and a banished exile of the same herculean race ignite into battle over the city's rooftops. In the streets below, a brilliant young scientist has discovered a technology that can defeat them both, yet might be more terrible than either.
Set both in modern New York City and in the technologically sophisticated yet politically savage world of Anthem, Anthem's Fall unfurls into a plot where larger than life characters born with the prowess of gods are pitted against the shrewd brilliance of a familiar and unlikely heroine.
The young emperor Vengelis Epsilon narrowly escapes the reckoning of his empire at the hands of strange machines known as Felixes. The Felixes are identical in every respect to the godlike men of Vengelis's world save for their mechanical blue eyes. Feared to be indestructible, the wanton holocaust of the Felix appears inescapable. His family murdered and his empire maimed under a shadow of destruction, Vengelis pursues the pained final words of his dying mentor, and sets course for a remote and unchartered world–our world.
The son of the man who created the Felixes, Gravitas Nerol has spent four years in lonely exile. His crime? When the Lord General of the Epsilon Army ordered the genocide of a vastly inferior race, Gravitas refused him. A warrior to his marrow, Gravitas has cast aside his former life and committed himself to the pursuit of knowledge.
Kristen Jordan is a young and talented graduate student working on a cutting edge research team. Their wildly inventive new biotechnology, the Vatruvian cell, is the celebrated milestone of modern science. Yet Kristen remains uneasy about the capabilities of the inexplicable Vatruvian cell, and as their project develops, it begins to ring oddly familiar to the perilous technology of Vengelis's home.
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I honestly can't believe this is a debut book. The writing is incredible, there is so much detail, and the plot – OH THE PLOT!
Do you like comics? I do, actually I LOVE them and you all should know by now how much I love urban fantasy/ sc-fi. I've already told several friends that they MUST read this book. Anthem's Fall has it all – aliens, superheros, villians, but nothing is cliche – the characterization is amazing. The book was told from multiple points of view which if not done correctly can be redundant but not this. I appreciated it here and I cared about each character and what they were going through.  This world is amazing and I'm really hoping for another book from this author and soon!
About the Author:
S.L. Dunn is the debut author of Anthem's Fall, a novel he wrote amid the wanderings of his mid twenties. He has written while living intermittently in St. John USVI, Boston, Maine and Seattle. Raised on big screen superhero movies and pop science fiction, he sought to create a novel that bridged a near-sci-fi thriller with a grand new fantasy. He currently resides in Seattle with his girlfriend Liz and their dog Lucy, and is hard at work completing the next book of the Anthem's Fall series.
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Always awesome to see an author knock it out like that 😀
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I do think it can be possible for machines to take over the human race within limits. Man cannot resist the ability to make higher technology and better computers. They want self thinking machines and already have robots in “human form” to do menial chores. What’s to stop them going further?
I completely agree Robyn. I think the more we try to disconnect from nature and take the easy way out the more possible it is.