Xanthe Static doesn't fail. She chooses to fall.
At eighteen, every citizen is tested. Pass, and you earn a life of cutting-edge technology, elite education, and near-zero crime. Fail, and you're discarded to the slums.
Xanthe has never believed intelligence determines a person's worth. After her parents vanish trying to expose the system, she deliberately falsifies her IQ score and disappears into the forgotten undercity.
But the slums aren't what she expected. As she befriends Phoebe Null and takes in Lola, a damaged android whose devotion blurs the line between machine and human, the mission that once defined her begins to unravel.
Some choices can't be undone. This was one of them.
Genre: Science Fiction
At eighteen, every citizen is tested. Pass, and you earn a life of cutting-edge technology, elite education, and near-zero crime. Fail, and you're discarded to the slums.
Xanthe has never believed intelligence determines a person's worth. After her parents vanish trying to expose the system, she deliberately falsifies her IQ score and disappears into the forgotten undercity.
But the slums aren't what she expected. As she befriends Phoebe Null and takes in Lola, a damaged android whose devotion blurs the line between machine and human, the mission that once defined her begins to unravel.
Some choices can't be undone. This was one of them.
Genre: Science Fiction