Michael Barnes
Christina (Chris) lives in an gated community in a world that suffering from Capialsim and climate change called the Enclave. Growing up she and all the other members of the community are bombarded telling her how dangerous and evil the world outside the wall is. And like every Dystopia the Enclave has cameras in every room and the lives of those who live within are mapped out in a uniform fashion from birth to death. SafetyNet (Fu*K AI its easy to predict everyone's choices when they are so restricted) knows everyone’s wants and needs before the individual does.
After Christina kisses Serinna a dark skinned worker (because these racist/classist of course would want anyone who works form them to be coloured) bused in each day from outside the walls she is forcefully ejected from the Enclave when her shocked family cuts her off. She survives the Wasteland and makes her way to the mainland to my home town Melbourne. Which give the vision of what the world could be if we didn't listen to greedy racist misogynist homophobic and transphobic asshats.
The first third of the book, set inside the Enclave, is a little slow with simple prose, but this amplifies the vanilla lives of the residents. When Christine is ejected the writing comes alive and is powerfully and graphically written. The final third was one of my favourite ideas, queer theater kids with the help of science nerds save everyone.
Christina (Chris) lives in an gated community in a world that suffering from Capialsim and climate change called the Enclave. Growing up she and all the other members of the community are bombarded telling her how dangerous and evil the world outside the wall is. And like every Dystopia the Enclave has cameras in every room and the lives of those who live within are mapped out in a uniform fashion from birth to death. SafetyNet (Fu*K AI its easy to predict everyone's choices when they are so restricted) knows everyone’s wants and needs before the individual does.
After Christina kisses Serinna a dark skinned worker (because these racist/classist of course would want anyone who works form them to be coloured) bused in each day from outside the walls she is forcefully ejected from the Enclave when her shocked family cuts her off. She survives the Wasteland and makes her way to the mainland to my home town Melbourne. Which give the vision of what the world could be if we didn't listen to greedy racist misogynist homophobic and transphobic asshats.
The first third of the book, set inside the Enclave, is a little slow with simple prose, but this amplifies the vanilla lives of the residents. When Christine is ejected the writing comes alive and is powerfully and graphically written. The final third was one of my favourite ideas, queer theater kids with the help of science nerds save everyone.