Expiration Day
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction….
Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.
Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania's life are not real?
Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth "birthdays," teknoids must be returned to Oxted—never to be heard from again.
Told in diary format, Expiration Day is the powerful and poignant story of a young girl coming of age and discovering what it means to be truly human by a talented debut novelist.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's 2049, and with most of humanity rendered mysteriously infertile, immaculately realistic robotic children called teknoids serve as outlets for adults' stymied parental urges. Tania Deeley grows up believing she's one of the few human children left. First-time novelist Powell gets the obvious twist that Tania herself is a teknoid out of the way early, focusing instead on the dilemmas that result. If Tania isn't a real person, why can she perform music, grieve the dead, and even fall in love? And what happens to Tania when her parents' 18-year lease on her ends? This story covers an unusually long span of time and comes out the stronger for it. The chatty 11-year-old who begins this diary-style novel is very different from the determined 17-year-old who ends it, but the transition is natural, and the essence of Tania's voice stays true. Sometimes the exposition gets clunky, as in a weighty testimony about teknoid history and neurobiology toward the end of the book, but Tania's creativity, pathos, and personality prove that she's just as much a person as any flesh-and-blood human. Ages 13 up.
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