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In this new world, there is a new power. Satori is more than just a corporation, she is an intelligent, living city that grew out of the ruins of Denver. Satori bioengineers both the climate-resistant seed that feeds a hungry nation, and her own post-human genetic Designers, Advocates, and Laborers. What remains of the United States government now exists solely to distribute Satori seed; a defeated American military doles out bar-coded, single-use Satori seed to the nation's starving citizens.
When one of Satori's Designers goes rogue, Agent Sienna Doss-Ex-Army Ranger turned glorified bodyguard-is tasked by the government to bring her
in: The government wants to use the Designer to break Satori's stranglehold on seed production and reassert themselves as the center of power.
Sianna Doss's search for the Designer intersects with Brood and his younger brother Pollo - orphans scrapping by on the fringes of the wastelands. Pollo is abducted, because he is believed to suffer from Tet, a newly emergent disease, the victims of which are harvested by Satori.
As events spin out of control, Brood and Sienna Doss find themselves at the heart of Satori, where an explosive climax promises to reshape the future of the world.
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Release date
November 8, 2011 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781597803243
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781597803243
- File size: 540 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from September 26, 2011
The near-future United States of Ziegler’s impressive debut is dominated by Satori, a bioengineering megacorporation only nominally answerable to the weak government that distributes Satori’s genetically modified seed stock to migrants in a land ravaged by climate change. When Satori engineer Pihadassa, the seed’s developer, goes rogue, agent Sienna Doss heads out to capture her and persuade her to work for the government. Meanwhile, migrant brothers Brood and Pollo are drawn into the plans laid by both Pihadassa and Satori. Fans weary of common postapocalyptic tropes will greatly appreciate Ziegler’s imaginative world-building, vivid writing, and compelling and racially diverse cast full of unique voices. Some of the science tends toward the fantastical, but Ziegler never swamps the narrative with explanations, focusing instead on the intriguing, fast-paced adventure nuanced with precise, uncomfortably plausible details of hardscrabble life.
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