You Cannot Kill the Root

In the future the citizens of civilised society are required to take part in the System, a grand attempt at tackling wealth inequality. After poor but brilliant Wesley Moon inexplicably fails his career aptitude test, ending his dream of becoming an astronomer, his introduction to an underground resistance group reveals the System is a sham, its machinations designed by a clique of wealthy elites called the Consortium.

As Wesley is targeted by more than one faction over his suspicious test result, he comes to realise the Consortium is responsible for far more than just the System, leading him into a world of covert surveillance, robot assassins and secret space stations – and, ultimately, horrifying truths about the future of humanity.