![]() ![]() What I wasn’t expecting was a really good socialist metaphor about the only real way to defeat oppressive authorities - through solidarity, and ridding them of their power. What I was expecting was an upbeat fantasy adventure about the underdogs rising up against the people who run their broken world. I was thinking of it recently, and remembered both loving it and owning a copy, so I decided to track that copy down and reread. Why do all the best YA books of the noughties come from Ireland? Darren Shan and Artemis Fowl were a huge part of my young life, and this book came along about the same time and knocked my socks off. But when he sets his sights on the masters of the game, the Committee, Erik finds he has bigger battles to fight. Erik, a teenager from a farming town, just wants to make his life better. ![]() People’s lives are run by Epic, a fantasy game that makes up the legal and financial systems for New Earth. My summary: Humanity have reached the stars, but life is not better for those at the bottom of the social order. ![]()
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