Sonya Kantor formerly served as the model for the Delegation, a regime that controlled the city of Seattle through the Insight, an ocular implant tracking every citizen’s behaviors. After the Delegation's collapse, Sonya is imprisoned for ten years in the Aperture, a high-security complex for former elites. To earn her freedom, she accepts a task from the new Triumvirate government to find a missing child. Sonya navigates the crumbling city infrastructure and confronts her family’s complicity in the previous administration’s surveillance tactics while tracking digital and physical clues.
Readers of cautionary speculative fiction and surveillance-state narratives will find a detailed study of bureaucratic collapse and moral accountability. The book provides a look at how data collection impacts social standing and how individuals reconcile their past participation in systemic oppression. Readers walk away with a specific perspective on the difficulty of seeking personal redemption in a society rebuilding from the ruins of high-tech authoritarianism. The story offers a grounded examination of the physical and psychological marks left by constant public observation.
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
