{"product_id":"operation-brendan-ogara-9798268418866","title":"Operation: Red Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey call it the \u003ci\u003elong war\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt began as a promise - the dream of merging flesh and machine, of building a future where disease, frailty, and even death itself could be beaten into extinction. Scientists called it \u003ci\u003eprogress\u003c\/i\u003e. Visionaries called it \u003ci\u003eevolution\u003c\/i\u003e. The faithful called it \u003ci\u003eblasphemy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat followed burned the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first shots of the Human-Transhuman conflict came quietly: soldiers outfitted with experimental implants stopped obeying orders. Cities fell to cybernetic warlords who claimed they were liberators. Governments collapsed under the weight of assassinations, sabotage networks, and entire populations demanding rights not written for posthuman beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the \u003cb\u003eQuantum Humans\u003c\/b\u003e emerged - minds uploaded into crystalline cores, bodies built of alloy and light. Faster. Stronger. Immortal in ways flesh could not comprehend. They claimed neutrality. They lied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Quantum fleets abandoned Earth in the \u003ci\u003eExodus of 2120\u003c\/i\u003e, humanity believed the wars were over. Instead, the Quantums left behind the \u003cb\u003eDeep Fissure Bomb\u003c\/b\u003e - a weapon buried forty thousand feet beneath the Pacific. When it detonated, the planet cracked. Power grids died. Cities drowned. Plagues spread faster than bullets. Nuclear plants failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe survivors call what followed \u003ci\u003ethe Hollow Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Quantums carved a new empire on Mars while Earth fell to famine, warlords, and madness. They left behind \u003cb\u003ea hundred hidden saboteurs\u003c\/b\u003e and posthuman armies to ensure no nation, no government, no remnant of the old world could ever rise again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the fires cooled, fewer than a billion humans remained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching from the shadows was \u003cb\u003eMooreclasian\u003c\/b\u003e, the archivist-tyrant, sealing away knowledge, culture, and science in his hidden Vaults while the world devoured itself outside. From there, he chronicled the betrayals, the plagues, the fall of empires, and the long descent into darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through the voices of soldiers, civilians, rebels, and even captured Quantums, \u003ci\u003eOperation: Red Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is the history of the war that ended the world... and the long, bitter birth of what came after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not a story of heroes.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not a story of villains.\u003cbr\u003eIt is the story of the death of an age - and the beginning of another, written in ash, blood, and iron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brendan O'Gara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798268418866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Brendan O'Gara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170530271487,"sku":"9798268418866","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/operation-brendan-ogara-9798268418866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}