![]() ![]() ![]() Lisse and her friends spend care-free evenings after they realize that they are a team and that this is their life now. ![]() ![]() They discover that by day, the area they live in is a dreary, dirty, unsafe place. Lisse and her seven friends are unemployed after graduating from a respected private school, and are assigned to live as a group in an abandoned warehouse in a Designated Area (DA). The story is told from the perspective of Lisse, a recent graduate of school. The working-class people are taught to hate the unemployed citizens, and the unemployed generally want money and employment, in a classic class struggle. The government, possibly the only government in existence at this point, is shown to have complete control over its citizens by restricting the unemployed to designated areas (DAs), and having similar control over the working-class. Some have formed gangs, some are shown to be agitating for political reform (in chapter 5 there is a reference to leaflets printed up), and many are involved in organized crime of some form or another. The unemployed people have nothing to look forward to, except various illicit drugs. Because of this, very few people are employed, with many people living on a social welfare system for support. The book is a hard science fiction dystopian novel set in 2154, a time when machines and robots perform most jobs and children go to government schools. ![]()
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