Product Description

A boy, a girl, and the end of the world...enemy is the emotional story of a war outside of space and time, and the lives that it tears apart in its wake. The Judas, the last survivors of a machine-initiated extinction incomprehensibly far into the future, live out their lives in the spaces between the stars and the Whens. Tough, battle-hardened, tired after centuries of war, they pursue the Enemy, machine-based life forms whose sole Purpose is to upload the last few survivors into their precious Program Seven. In Book One: Coming of the Storm, something goes tragically wrong when Judas Magdalene is forced to crash-land in the Pacific Ocean of a primitive Earth.When a government prison island is wiped off the map by the unexplained atomic explosion, president David Jennings takes extreme measures to protect his country from invasion, inexorably drawing himself into the war against the Enemy. In Book Two: Planet of the Shadows, the Enemy have voraciously fallen up on the Earth, and the survivors of Enemy holocaust, including Simon Hayes, a military doctor with a tortured past, and Maggie Flynn, an ex-terrorist with a damning secret, draw together to stop the Enemy from uploading their world. In Book Three: Time of the Damned, the Judas must face the Enemy once more in an apocalyptic fury that will determine the future of existence. At its heart, enemy is the tragic story of the love between Simon and Maggie, a bond that transcends death and the void between the stars. Overcome with the need to avenge Maggie's death at the hands of the Enemy, Simon is filled with blind rage and hatred for the nemesis that is destroying all of existence. The characters in enemy are realized through an intriguing and at times lyrical use of flashback. Non-linear and postmodern, enemy challenges the reader with multiple storylines playing across multiple timelines. Tragic, touching, frightening...enemy will take you to place beyond time and space, a place where the love between two people is sometimes the only thing worth fighting for. Only ever really one story: a boy, a girl, and the end of the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3578478 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-31
• Released on: 2003-06-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 354 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781588980472
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Review
...an expansive tale of cosmic war that spans generations, times, existence. -- Mark Brand, November 2000.

One of the best scifi books I've read in years... This kid will churn out many more like this. -- Jeff Schwaner, Editor, December, 2000.

The story was artfully woven and detailed--interesting in its precision and touching of deep-seated human emotion. -- Sharon Stanhope, February 2001.

About the Author
Paul Evan Hughes likes to pretend that he is an author and webdesigner living in Syracuse, NY. Born in 1978, he was raised in tiny Philadelphia, NY. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2000 with a BA in fine arts, and he is currently pursuing his MFA through Goddard College in Vermont. In 1996, Hughes built the first of the hundreds of pages that make up the popular online collective resurrender.net. Hughes currently resides in the ghetto of Syracuse with his computers, Francine I, II and Murphy One, a pile of guitars, a bucket of scotch, and too many photographs and memories. He thinks too much.

Customer Reviews

A boy, a girl, the end of the world
Isn't that how it always is? A boy and a girl at the end of the world. Hughes writes an emotionally gripping novel placed in a place out of space and time. With a twist around every corner, the basic story that runs true throughout. The Enemy and the Judas take you through a wonderfully woven tale.

Good Stuff
Hughes delivers a good sci-fi novel here. I won't go into the plot details, but you won't be disapointed. He has a very unique and magnetic writing style that keeps the reader interested throughout. It's a shame more people won't read this one. Recommended.