hari_seldon
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Hi all,
I remember really enjoying reading this book a few years ago (would have been summer of 2017, but I don't know when it was published - I would guess 21st Century but only 70% sure on it), but because I only remember a few of the plot points, I'm having real difficulty finding anything useful through Google searches. Any help, and I'd love you forever.
HUGE THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO DOES!!
EDIT: It is a full novel and I read it in English.
EDIT: Couple more details. The theme definitely isn't post-apocalyptic or dystopian, and I think it is set in a contemporary time (as in only the protagonists have super-advanced technology, the rest of society is 00s/10s)
I remember really enjoying reading this book a few years ago (would have been summer of 2017, but I don't know when it was published - I would guess 21st Century but only 70% sure on it), but because I only remember a few of the plot points, I'm having real difficulty finding anything useful through Google searches. Any help, and I'd love you forever.
- A group of super-intelligent kids are being experimented on by the Nazis until at the end of the war the Soviets (I think) liberate the prison they were held in and they escape.
- I think initially they were taken into Soviet care, but I know the bulk of the story is set in the US.
- I really strong memory of the plot I have is that an adult (not sure if this is an adopted parent of the group, or the children are now grown up) goes to buy some remote land in the west of the US from the Bureau of Land Management. I know such a weird detail to remember.
- This land includes a set of enormous salt caverns.
- One of the group (unsure of their ages at this stage, if I had to guess at this stage they are adolescents, and the adult who buy's the land is some sort of adopted parent) invents a device to transmute elements (I think there is a scene where they demonstrate it by turning various things into gold).
- They live and work in these enormous converted salt caverns, hidden from view.
- At some point one of the group leaves and becomes very rich making weapons for the US military
- I am 70% confident that this person is not one of the original experimented-upon kids, but a sort of half-outsider child. This is way I am leaning towards the children having an adopted parent(s), and the kid that leaves is the "natural" child of the parents.
- I think the goal of the group becomes to render nuclear weapons useless.
- The member of the group that left attempts (along with US Army) to invade the salt caverns, but they are fended off by super-agile combat capable robots.
- I cant remember the ending - don't know which side was successful.
- However, I think there is a scene where the group meets a man late at night on the bed of a dried-up salt lake (this might have been their adopted father I don't know), so if I had to guess I would say that the group was able to escape into hiding, and the final scene of the book is them saying a final goodbye to their adopted father? who has moved on with their life.
- Thinking about this again, this may have been the beginning of the book as an in medias res scene.
- However, I think there is a scene where the group meets a man late at night on the bed of a dried-up salt lake (this might have been their adopted father I don't know), so if I had to guess I would say that the group was able to escape into hiding, and the final scene of the book is them saying a final goodbye to their adopted father? who has moved on with their life.
HUGE THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE WHO DOES!!
EDIT: It is a full novel and I read it in English.
EDIT: Couple more details. The theme definitely isn't post-apocalyptic or dystopian, and I think it is set in a contemporary time (as in only the protagonists have super-advanced technology, the rest of society is 00s/10s)
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