About A City Without Birds by Alexandra Ding
“The cameras aren’t watching you. You’re watching yourself.”
Terry Silver doesn’t know she’s living a lie. Despite the feisty attitude that angers her university teachers, she’s unaware of the dissentious thoughts erased from her mind, or the half-truths fed to millions of Seranidians to maintain the paradise of the City. Even, of the fact that she may have taken a life.
But when the mysterious Professor Camus Remin whisks her from the crosshairs of Seranid’s elite killing squad and into Slums, she finds stolen memories, including ones of her long-dead father, and a people trampled by innovation, who call her the Phoenix that will herald the rebirth of the nation.
As Terry tries to foment an uprising, she faces more than her own mortality: resurfacing trauma, the deaths of loved ones, and the looming threat of an all-out nuclear war. She’s forced to ask herself: what price would you pay for change?
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Hi there! I write mainly science fiction and fantasy, but dip into other genres. Dystopia’s a favorite of mine, because it allows me to critique our world. I’m also an engineer (planes!) and a photographer (or at least I was, before the pandemic. Trying to get back into it).