Аннотация

It's 2012. Do you know where
your androids are? In the near
future, the world will grow
complacent and a brilliant, if
misguided, mind will seek to
capitalize on that complacency by providing the common man
and royalty alike with just the
convenience he needs to aid
him in his day to day labors. But
what if suddenly those
companions were to turn on their masters, sowing the seeds
of destruction and death across
the land? What if man's helper
became his killer, and no one
knew why or how to stop it?
The Growing is the story of such a post-apocalyptic vision, and of
the brave men and women who
give everything they have to
save the world from its eventual
destruction. It is also the story
of two lonely hearts, bitter enemies at first, who learn to
trust and to love again in a
world falling down all around
them. Koda Rivers is a Lakota
veterinarian and shaman whose
roots run deep in her culture and in the soil of her native
Black Hills. Kirsten King, Ph.D., is
a brilliant cyberscientist and the
sole surviving member of
President Hillary Clinton's
Cabinet. Each drawn by her own mission to destroy the androids,
they meet in fire and blood at
the North Dakota facility where
the insurgent machines are
manufactured. The Growing has
all the bells and whistles of a classical epic: sweeping battles,
a heroic love story, Amazon
warriors, a blind bard, the gods
of the land and a monster or
two. The challenges present are
met by our two heroes and their companions. These include
Dakota's remarkable father and
her warrior brother, Tacoma;
Maggie Allen, USAF Colonel and
crack pilot; an extraordinary
German Shepherd named Asimov; and the spirits of the
land in their various forms.