{"product_id":"9781837860777","title":"The Ten Percent Thief : Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award!","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lakshminarayan, Lavanya \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 15 February 2024 by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 24 | 254g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously published in South Asia only as Analog\/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44721606492419,"sku":"9781837860777","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781837860777.jpg?v=1731407486","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781837860777","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}