Szewczak Calder - The Offset - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick? In a dying world the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted celebrated and abhorred. But in this world survival demands sacrifice so for every birth there must be a death. Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix a ground - breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically - modified willow trees. But things aren t working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life's work? In the meantime her daughter Miri an anti - natalist has run away from home. Days before their Offset ceremony where one of her mothers must be sentenced to death she is brought back against her will following a run - in with the law. Which parent will Miri pick to die: the one she loves or the one she hates who is working to save the world? File Under: Science Fiction Only One Leaves | The Choice is Yours | Last Hope | Counting Down
Title: The Offset
Author(s): Szewczak Calder
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9780857669186
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 9/14/2021
Category: Fantasy