Equilon – What if your fate is decided by the system?
Does your life matter?
Jenna has done it: she has cracked the score for the ‘One Billion’ and is now one of the privileged few allowed to go to New Valley, the place where EQUILON was developed. EQUILON: the algorithm designed to make the planet – a world shaken by poverty and climate change – habitable again. But when an event at New Valley is bombed by rebels, she gets a fi rst glimpse of the dark side of this glamorous world.
Dorian from Old LA is bitter: His survival depends on the ‘One Billion’ score – but he fails at every evaluation. Then he meets little Maggie. Her mother is dying and entrusts him not only with Maggie’s fate, but also with something incomparably more valuable: the key to crack the ‘One Billion’ score.
- Fascinating near-future fi ction addressing some red-hot topics: climate crisis, A.I., the ever-widening gap between rich and poor
- A tense and profound tale of disenchantment with social media and virtual reality
- Based on the author’s own experience of living and working in Silicon Valley and her research on the infl uence of algorithms on our reality
Sarah Raich studied General and Comparative Literature at the FU Berlin, worked at creative agencies and as a journalist, and lived in California before she began publishing narrative texts. Her debut novel, ‘All That’s Left ’ (Piper), was nominated for a Seraph (the German Fantasy Literature Prize) by the Phantastische Akademie in 2022. Sarah Raich lives in Munich with her husband and children.
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