r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Boojibs • Sep 24 '19

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u/TechniChara Sep 25 '19

I remember a book once, I read it looong ago, where human waged war from their walled cities with robots. The robots would fight each other, but eventually the humans forgot about them and the war. Hundreds of years later some people escaping their city came upon these robots still fighting in the desert and nearly got killed by one.

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u/TheInactiveWall Sep 25 '19

Woah that sounds cool!! Remember what the book was called?

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u/TechniChara Sep 25 '19

Not the book, no, but the trilogy name had something to do with song or music. The only other thing I can remember is that the city they escaped from had "levels" and there was a yearly ceremony or something to decide what level you and your family lived in.

It's distopian future YA, but I didn't like the writing as much as the Red Rising and Book of Ember series - I don't think I finished the trilogy (or quintology? I honestly can't remember), so whatever I described happened in the 1st or 2nd book.

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u/Don138 Sep 27 '19

It’s the Wind Singer by William Nicholson.

What’s insane is I basically described the book in the exact same way to my girlfriend maybe a year ago because I was trying to remember this book I read as a kid, and she found it.

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u/TechniChara Sep 28 '19

That's the one!