New York 2025
Summary
Kyle
Besant [a minor character in Carbon Century
and Manna
2020] meets extraordinary twin sisters, Ariadne & Zoe, in
Manhattan and with them makes an extraordinary discovery.
New York 2025 concludes with the end of the world, as we know it.
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