01604cam a2200277 i 4500 11215 IN-BhIIT 20260107174914.0 231027s2023 enk 000 f eng d 9781837860777 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 823.92 LAK/T Lakshminarayan, Lavanya Author 26034 The ten percent thief / by Lavanya Lakshminarayan UK : Solaris, 2023. 344 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm "Revised and updated from Analog/Virtual first published 2020 by Hachette India" -- page opposite title page. "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"-- 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 Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs: no access to electricity, running water. Denied even your humanity. The system has no flaws-- until the "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.... -- adapted from jacket Virtual reality Fiction. 26035 Social stratification Fiction. 26036 Social classes Fiction. 26037 Revolutions Fiction. 26038 GEN 1 14618 14618 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2025-02-21 49 1070.23 1 823.92 LAK/T 11215 2026-03-17 17:45:40 2026-01-07 1466.07 2025-02-21 GEN