What Gives A Person Their Worth?
In Meritropolis, life is cruel, unless you are deemed to be of high intelligence and physically fit. Each member of the society has their merit number tattooed on their arm. If you have a score over 100, you live a safe and privileged life. If you have a low score below 50, you are deemed to be a burden to the city and locked outside of the gates at night to be killed by vicious, hybrid animal monsters.
˃˃˃ Is All Life Valuable?
Charley achieves a score of 118, one of the highest in Meritropolis. That score affords him a lot of perks, but seeing a little girl about to be zeroed brings back memories of his brother, Alec, who was also zeroed as a child, and sends him into a blind rage.
Charley vows then and there that he will fight the system because he knows all life is valuable, regardless of what the system dictates. But should he fight the system from within or attack it from the outside? And are they really the only people left after The Event, or is that just another lie perpetuated by the system?
150 years after a virus wipes out most of the world’s population, Reagan Scott finds herself chosen for the State of the Union's fifth Culling. She will compete against 49 of the country's brightest girls. And then, of course, there are the 50 boys. She’ll have to pair up with one for her shot at becoming the next Presidential Couple.
Though the government truly means well, not everything is as it seems. She will be tested to the fullest extent while an evil storm brews.
With eliminations happening frequently, how far can she make it? And if she makes it far enough to meet the boys, how can she be expected to, at just 18 years of age, find a partner... for life? Does she have what it takes to be the next Madam President?
Though the government truly means well, not everything is as it seems. She will be tested to the fullest extent while an evil storm brews.
With eliminations happening frequently, how far can she make it? And if she makes it far enough to meet the boys, how can she be expected to, at just 18 years of age, find a partner... for life? Does she have what it takes to be the next Madam President?
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
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