The Brothers Of Redemption — Diana Murray

The Journey You Start Isn't The One You Finish  It's 2165 in the Old Calendar, 0093 in the New. The world is a desolate realm of vast zones governed by the mysterious Council Of the Brotherhood Orders. Brothers and Settlers vie for control in what once was the developed world. Insurgencies plague the rest. The past is taboo, erased by the enigmatic Before.Jed and Max Kleer, half-brothers born into elite Brotherhood cohorts, share a mysterious bond that neither understands. They're washouts living empty lives, adrift in the remnants of New York City. Jed, a disgraced Appraiser, works in the dreary Archives, feeding endless documents from the Before into Janus, the Council's vast cloud drive. Max, a former combat engineer, lives in perpetual adolescent rage, smoking pellets, trading relics from the Before in a squatter colony.Jed gets a chance at redemption in the Sonoran Desert and Max, in trouble and needing to lie low, joins him there. When Jed wins Hannah Joyner, a settler abducted to be a sex slave, in a card game, their lives take an unexpected turn. They embark on a perilous journey across the continent to guide the lost girl home. Everything. The journey they start won't be the one they finish. Technium defies the conventions of the dystopian genre by combining romance, humor and lyrical meditations on the America that once was and might one day be. It consists of two volumes, The Brothers Of Redemption and A Daughter Of Her People.