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The Ten Percent Thief: Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award!

Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Solaris
  • Publish Date: Mar 28th, 2023
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.58in - 5.35in - 1.42in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9781786188533
  • Categories: • Science Fiction - Cyberpunk• Satire• Thrillers - Espionage

About the Author

Lakshminarayan, Lavanya: - Lavanya Lakshminarayan is the author of Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future. She is a Locus Award finalist and is the first science fiction writer to win the Times of India AutHer Award and the Valley of Words Award, both prestigious literary awards in India, and her work has been longlisted for a BSFA Award. She's occasionally a game designer, and has built worlds for Zynga Inc.'s FarmVille franchise, Mafia Wars, and other games. She lives in India, and is currently working on her next novel.

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Get knee-deep in grit with Grimdark Magazine. 2016 Stabby award best anthology. 2018 BSFA nominated. 2021 Aurealis winning.

A deeply thought-provoking and timely novel || @DrJohnmauro reviews THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by @lavanya_ln @Solarisbooks || https://t.co/cYBmxdr1BY

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Penn State Prof | National Academy of Engineering | Editor-in-Chief, J. American Ceramic Society | Grimdark Magazine | Before We Go Blog | #SPFBO9 Judge

REVIEW: The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "a deeply thought-provoking novel that updates the traditional notion of castes for a near-future meritocratic society infused with artificial intelligence" https://t.co/EOBhhZUoVJ @lavanya_ln @Solarisbooks https://t.co/yMerEfKp0A

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Praise for this book

"The Ten Percent Thief is really terrific; I loved it." - Dave Hutchinson
"Spanning multiple points of view, writing styles and character voices, this masterful work of science fiction weaves its individual stories into a complex and engaging whole." --S.B. Divya, Nebula Award finalist and author of Runtime
"This is fiction playing for the highest stakes - and winning." --Chandrahas Choudhury, author of Clouds
"By turns horror, cyberpunk, and biting social satire, Analog/Virtual is a high velocity anthem sung through the shape of things to come." --Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nebula Award finalist and author of The Inhuman Race
"If you ever wondered how Huxley's Brave New World would look when social media metrics take charge, Lakshminarayan's Ten Percent Thief gets all the likes and thumbs up for showing us a world no sane person would want to live in. It's deeply disturbing, but you can't look away." --Wayne Santos, author of The Chimera Code
"An astonishing, kaleidoscopic journey through the fractured landscape of a future India where cyber-power has created a new system of oppression, this beautifully written novel of imaginative literature serves both as a warning and a source of resurgent hope. Grim, unrelenting, polyphonic and exhilarating." --Vandana Singh
"The Ten Percent Thief delivers hope, wonder, bleakness, humour and wisdom in equal measure, with unforgettable characters telling a multifaceted story of a future revolution. A complex, dazzling debut." --Samit Basu, author of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
"Immersive and skillfully wrought; a fascinating kaleidoscope of near-future dystopian fiction" --Stark Holborn
"As satisfying as it is clever." --Publishers Weekly
"A sparkling debut." --Aubrey Wood, Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of Bang Bang Bodhisattva
"Playful and crushing in equal measure." --FanFiAddict
"A new masterpiece." --SciFiNow
"Lakshminarayan uses her novel to flawlessly confront constructed binaries built into the very fabric of contemporary society." --The Fantasy Hive
"The Ten Percent Thief is bold and creative, and Lakshminarayan expertly packages a warning that will only get more relevant with time." --STARBURST Magazine
"This is, punk-like, a collection of rebellions against, and reconsiderations of, the status quo. One of my favourite books of recent years." --Jared Shurin, Raptor Velocity
"Impressive." --SFX
"Stunning and thought-provoking." --The British Fantasy Society
"Smart, vivid, engaging." --The Guardian
"Lavanya Lakshminarayan breathes new life into dystopia." --The Washington Post
"Deeply thought-provoking and timely." --Grimdark Magazine
"Biting... a dystopian kaleidoscope, hideous and true." --Esquire

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