A world in which no one dies of natural causes sounds like a utopia... until you place the power of death in the hands of humans instead. That's the world that you enter when you pick up National Book ...

Citra and Rowan are normal teens, until the day they’re chosen as apprentices to Scythe Faraday. In their utopian future, Scythes are the only source of death and used as a kind of population control.

A scythe is a sharp tool used for cutting down long grass or crops. It has a wooden handle and a long curved metal blade. Images of the Grim Reaper always depict a dark, hooded figure holding a scythe ...

The year is 2042. Humans have vanquished death and the post-mortal Earth has become, “A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery.” It has remained the only habitable planet. Earth has ...