![]() You have the ‘Analogs’ of Apex City living outside the Carnatic Meridian, bearing the full brunt of a world that has succumbed to climate change, with barely any fresh food and water, and deprived of technology, while the ‘Virtuals’ live on the other side. ![]() The book is in a Bengaluru of the future when it is called ‘Apex City’ - a world where the Bell Corporation has established ‘meritocratic technarcy’ to define the boundaries of life, literally and figuratively. The interconnected stories march steadily towards you like an advancing army - with every word you read, the comfortable distance created by speculative fiction is slowly eroded and you feel exposed to possibilities that look all too real. A sense of foreboding overhangs Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut book.
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