It was one of the hardest books I’ve had to rate recently. No joke, this novel is brilliant, dark, and frightening. Which parent will Miri pick to die: the one she loves, or the one she hates who is working to save the world?Īngry Robot always introduces me to the most unique novels, and The Offset is not the exception. 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. In the meantime, her daughter Miri, an anti-natalist, has run away from home. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life’s work? But things aren’t working out and there are discrepancies in the data. 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 in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated and abhorred. In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die.
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