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The Ten Percent Thief Lavanya Lakshminarayan

The Ten Percent Thief By Lavanya Lakshminarayan

The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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Summary

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore. Technology is the key to survival, productivity is power, and success is the only goal in life. Everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve; the system has no flaws, and cannot be questioned. Until a single daring theft sets events in motion that will change the city forever...

The Ten Percent Thief Summary

The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.

With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent - the Virtual elite - and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws. Until the elusive Ten Percent Thief steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.

The Ten Percent Thief Reviews

Lakshminarayan is a favourite... The Ten Percent Thief is an ambitious novel. -- The Washington Post


Lakshminarayan's nuanced dystopian future will leave readers questioning their own relationship with technology and social media as they follow the cookie crumb trail of conformity and dissent through multiple character perspectives. The result is as satisfying as it is clever. -- Publishers Weekly


Playful and crushing in equal measure. -- FanFiAddict


A new masterpiece -- SciFiNow


Lakshminarayan uses her novel to flawlessly confront constructed binaries built into the very fabric of contemporary society -- The Fantasy Hive


The Ten Percent Thief is bold and creative, and Lakshminarayan expertly packages a warning that will only get more relevant with time -- STARBURST Magazine


There are wonders and gizmos within Apex City, but these are stories about people's lives. This is, punk-like, a collection of rebellions against, and reconsiderations of, the status quo. One of my favourite books of recent years. -- Jared Shurin, Raptor Velocity


Impressive -- SFX

About Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Lavanya Lakshminarayan is the author of Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future. She is a Locus Award finalist and is the first science fiction writer to win the Times of India AutHer Award and the Valley of Words Award, both prestigious literary awards in India, and her work has been longlisted for a BSFA Award. She's occasionally a game designer, and has built worlds for Zynga Inc.'s FarmVille franchise, Mafia Wars, and other games. She lives in India, and is currently working on her next novel.

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NGR9781786188533
9781786188533
1786188538
The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
New
Hardback
Rebellion
2023-03-28
368
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