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Name: Life on the preservation
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Author: Jack Skillingstead

📘 Life on the preservation by Jack Skillingstead

Inside the Seattle Preservation Dome time loops endlessly on the Fifth of October, while outside the city lies in apocalyptic ruin. Reformed graffiti artist Ian Palmer knows the truth, trying to wake the city before alien curators erase his identity. Small‑town teen Kylie, one of the few who survived the shock wave and poisonous rains, must travel across the shattered landscape, evading a deranged priest and skeletal beings that may have once been human. Her goal is to reach the Preservation Dome and destroy it. Inside, she meets Ian and together uncover that the Dome’s reality is even stranger than expected.

First publish date: 2013

Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction

Authors: Jack Skillingstead

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