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Scavenger
Series · 3 books · 2014-2016

Books in series

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Zoid

2014

A brand-new sci-fi adventure series from the multi-award-winning Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell ROBOTS VS. HUMANS: THE BATTLE BEGINS A spaceship the size of a continent drifts through space on its journey to find a new Earth. When it launched it was populated by thousands of hopeful passengers and the most high-tech robots in the world, ready to serve the crew's every need. Then the robots rebelled against their masters and became Zoids, wiping out most of the crew. Now the few remaining humans are hunted like vermin. York is a Scavenger, charged with fighting back. He tracks down Zoids and destroys them, bringing back their parts to mend human technology - but the Zoids are evolving and becoming more dangerous, York has always battled to survive, and now the fate of his people is in his hands...
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Scavenger

2015

Chaos Zone is the second book in the thrilling sci-fi adventure series from the team behind the Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. For ages nine and up. After their fierce battle with the zoids, fourteen year-old York and his robotic friend Belle must journey down to the next level of the Biosphere, where all the plants and animals for the journey from Earth were kept . . . Since the zoid uprising, this level has become a deadly mix of enormous carnivorous plants, mutated insects and animals that have evolved in terrifying ways. York and Belle have no choice but to fight their way through this dangerous landscape to reach the centre of the ship – where, hopefully, they will finally solve the mystery of the Zoids. Continue the sci-fi adventures with the third and final book in the series, Mind Warp .
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Mind Warp

2016

The zoids have taken over the Biosphere and it is up to York to journey back into the memory banks of the central computer to discover the glitch that first corrupted the zoids and threatened humanity. In danger of losing himself in this warped world, York must battle his own mind to find the answers he needs. With the fate of mankind in his hands, is York strong enough to hold on to himself?

Authors

Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart
Author · 52 books

Paul Stewart is a highly regarded author of books for young readers – from picture books to football stories, fantasy and horror. Together with Chris Riddell he is co-creator of the bestselling Edge Chronicles, which has sold more than three million copies and is available in over twenty languages. They have also collaborated together on lots of other exciting books for children of all ages. The Far-Flung Adventure series includes the Gold Smarties Prize Winner Fergus Crane, and Corby Flood and Hugo Pepper, both Silver Nestle Prize Winners. Then there are the Barnaby Grimes books, two Muddle Earth adventures, and the sci-fi Scavenger and fantasy Wyrmeweald trilogies. For younger readers there is the Blobheads series, while for the very young, Paul has written several picture books, including the Rabbit and Hedgehog series, In the Dark of the Night and, his latest, Wings. Other authors by this name disambiguation Note: Paul Stewart - business and management books

Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell
Author · 41 books

Chris Riddell was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father was an Anglican priest and a member of the ANC. The family moved to England in 1963, when Riddell was one year old, and he spent his childhood in a number of different locations, as his father moved between parishes. Both of Riddell's parents continued to be active in the anti-apartheid movement. Chris Riddell is an internationally acclaimed writer and illustrator whose many awards include the Nestlé Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals—the most prestigious prize for illustration in the UK. He is the creator of more than one hundred books for all ages, including the immensely popular series the Edge Chronicles and his latest chapter book series, starring the irrepressible Ottoline Brown, which School Library Journal called "exceptional." Chris lives in Brighton, England, with his wife and three children where he invents his amazing characters in a very tidy shed in his yard.

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