Unregistered
Children of the Uprising, #1
Science Fiction & Fantasy, High Tech, Science Fiction, Adventure
| Author: | Megan Lynch | ISBN: | 9781944728564 |
| Publisher: | City Owl Press | Publication: | October 3, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Megan Lynch |
| ISBN: | 9781944728564 |
| Publisher: | City Owl Press |
| Publication: | October 3, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Living the ideal life is a human right, unless you're unregistered.
Under the watchful eye of the Metrics Worldwide Government, citizens are assigned a life, so they don't worry about finding schools, jobs, or spouses for themselves. They're even allowed to have one child, enabling them to focus on raising an ideal son or daughter and experience an optimally satisfying family life.
But what happens for those outside of the government's rules?
The left out are the unlucky accidental second children, the unregistered. For 20-year-old Bristol, this is the only life he knows. But he can't shake the feeling that something is wrong with his world, and spends his nights painting controversial murals in low-profile parts of town.
Metrics doesn't like the murals or the frustrations of the unregistered citizens they represent.
They enact their long-debated unregistered solution: publicly, they announce the relocation of all unregistered citizens to far-off desert states. But when Bristol and his friends discover the dark truth behind the plan, they must work together to escape the government's clutches, and survive long enough to discover an unknown world.
"Lynch's exceptional near-future totalitarian nightmare of obedience and forced sterilization, all major individual decisions are removed. Four central characters in an unnamed city resent their repressive lives...Their lives intertwine in Lynch's scant but complex book, which packs in scathing commentaries on police brutality, crime prevention, population control, classism, and state-sponsored murder." - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
Living the ideal life is a human right, unless you're unregistered.
Under the watchful eye of the Metrics Worldwide Government, citizens are assigned a life, so they don't worry about finding schools, jobs, or spouses for themselves. They're even allowed to have one child, enabling them to focus on raising an ideal son or daughter and experience an optimally satisfying family life.
But what happens for those outside of the government's rules?
The left out are the unlucky accidental second children, the unregistered. For 20-year-old Bristol, this is the only life he knows. But he can't shake the feeling that something is wrong with his world, and spends his nights painting controversial murals in low-profile parts of town.
Metrics doesn't like the murals or the frustrations of the unregistered citizens they represent.
They enact their long-debated unregistered solution: publicly, they announce the relocation of all unregistered citizens to far-off desert states. But when Bristol and his friends discover the dark truth behind the plan, they must work together to escape the government's clutches, and survive long enough to discover an unknown world.
"Lynch's exceptional near-future totalitarian nightmare of obedience and forced sterilization, all major individual decisions are removed. Four central characters in an unnamed city resent their repressive lives...Their lives intertwine in Lynch's scant but complex book, which packs in scathing commentaries on police brutality, crime prevention, population control, classism, and state-sponsored murder." - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
