A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run
along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution
that will destroy it.
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.