TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lakshminarayan,Lavanya
TI  - The ten percent thief
SN  - 9781837860777 (pbk.)
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - UK
PB  - Solaris
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Revolutions
N1  - "Revised and updated from Analog/Virtual first published 2020 by Hachette India" -- page opposite title page
N2  - "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
ER  -