The Blue Spark

A supernatural being delivers a cubed enigma to maverick archeologist Ian Dury, forewarning that it is integral in defeating the Overlords, über-advanced humans from a distant past coveting their former world.
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Five years later, robotics legend Mitsuo Kobayashi purloins the cube’s latent purpose, projecting a young woman’s soul into sixteen replicant sisters before the disastrous consequences of playing God lay bare his hubris.
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Rachel and Owen Haig raise their precocious daughter, Hannah, out of the public eye until life-shattering events spiral their extraordinary lives asunder.
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Assuming absolute command of The Powers That Be, Andrew corrupts a pie-in-the-sky post-invasion utopian vision while plotting an apocalyptic prelude to the Overlords’ climactic return.

We have met the enemy, and they are us.

Book Three in The Powers That Be science fiction trilogy from author & artist John Hopkins, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a dystopian future, blurring lines between morals and science, loyalty and betrayal, courage and fear, hope and despair, presaging the ultimate conflict to determine humankind’s transformative destiny.
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25-year-old Hannah Haig leads a solitary life in 2070 as a drone tech aboard Thundercorp No. 5 when a terror attack sends the moon-like orbiting warehouse back to Earth in a cascade of fiery debris. A month later, estranged from her mother and stricken with survivor’s guilt, Hannah’s Blue Spark fate manifests at civilization’s violent, irony-laced end.
Venturing across a hellscape that was Europe in search of her long-lost father, the courageous young woman wields her quintessential energized post-human incarnation on a valiant crusade against the tyrannical Overlords’ plan to reclaim their former world.

Six thousand years later, something stirs within the cube long since buried beneath the sands of time on a war-ravaged planet altered by cataclysmic upheaval.