Remnants is a series of 14 young adult science fiction books co-authored by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, published between July 2001 and September 2003. The series centres around a group of humans launched into space in a desperate attempt to survive following an asteroid collision with the Earth.
Plot summary In book one, a 76-mile (122 km)-long asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, which will kill the vast majority of all living things. Eighty people – mostly top scientists and their families – have been chosen to make a desperate escape in the Mayflower, a converted space ship which will use solar sails and experimental suspended animation. A chunk of the asteroid breaks off and destroys San Francisco. Some people who were not chosen to leave Earth kill some of the chosen crew so they can take their places on board the Mayflower. Others are stowaways. Most people on board are put into suspended animation, and the ship barely leaves in time, before the asteroid strikes. In book two, most of the passengers on the Mayflower wake up and find the ship is somehow within a building. Something went wrong with the suspended animation, causing about twenty people, mostly adults, to die. The survivors, many of them now orphaned teenagers, call themselves Remnants. They discover alien races / species in the building, along with deadly parasitic worms. They must fight to learn what is going on and to survive. Eventually, Jobs realizes they are inside a colossal space craft. In book three, the Remnants learn the space craft has an artificial intelligence called Mother, that Mother is confused, and the confusion is causing problems with the indoor environment. The Remnants must learn to communicate with and hopefully get along with the various alien races / species, in order to fix Mother.
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