The Ten Percent Thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan
The Ten Percent Thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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The Ten Percent Thief

Author: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Narrator: Deepa Samuel, Shawn K. Jain

Unabridged: 9 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/16/2024


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 07, 2024

Check out my Interview with Lavanya Lakshminarayan. My complete review of The Ten Percent Thief is published at Grimdark Magazine. In The Ten Percent Thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan immerses us in Apex City, formerly known as Bangalore, once the Silicon Valley of India and now governed by a technocapita......more

Goodreads review by Rosh ~catching up slowly~ on April 01, 2023

In a Nutshell:A dystopian sci-fi presented in an innovative format – a mosaic novel. Took me a while to get used to the structure, but overall, it was worth it. Found an outstanding Indian fictional work after a long time, though the story isn’t Indian as such. Story Synopsis: In the near-future, e......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on October 12, 2023

An engaging and timely work of dystopian fiction, taking aim at unbridled capitalism, obsessive work culture, claims of meritocracy in the face of rampant structural inequality, technology dependence, and more. I think this phrase “mosaic novel” was coined specifically to describe this one, but it s......more

Goodreads review by Gautam on September 04, 2020

A few of the things I liked very much about this novel: excellent near-future speculative fiction: the mark of success of near-future spec-fic is how it makes its world plausible - showing you the trajectory our own world can take to get there - while at the same time maintaining an eerie sense of d......more

Goodreads review by Natasha on November 09, 2022

The book was sent to me by the author, complete with annotations, making the reading experience more enjoyable. This story is set in a future Bangalore where everything has changed, starting from the very name. Undoubtedly, if there's one place in India where such a story could be set, it is this one......more