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The harsh world of Maya is run by the Changed; a carefully inbred aristocracy clustered in their hillside city, high above the wretched swarms of human colonists. For generations now the Changed have been altering their own genes and their children's. They're smarter, faster, longer-lived - and acutely aware of their own superiority. What they don't admit is that they have become a separate species.
Every year, the Changed allow a handpicked group of human children to come and be tested alongside their own. But the Changed know, as the humans do not, that it's a sham. The humans will always fail. It's a subtle way of teaching them their place.
Then, one year, Arsen shows up: strong, smart, charismatic, and not at all convinved of the superiority of the Changed. No problem, really - until he hookos up with Della, born and bred Changed but every bit as rebellious.
What the two of them start will tip their whole universe as they know it over on its side, and start it rolling downhill...
The harsh world of Maya is run by the Changed; a carefully inbred aristocracy clustered in their hillside city, high above the wretched swarms of human colonists. For generations now the Changed have been altering their own genes and their children's. They're smarter, faster, longer-lived - and acutely aware of their own superiority. What they don't admit is that they have become a separate species.
Every year, the Changed allow a handpicked group of human children to come and be tested alongside their own. But the Changed know, as the humans do not, that it's a sham. The humans will always fail. It's a subtle way of teaching them their place.
Then, one year, Arsen shows up: strong, smart, charismatic, and not at all convinved of the superiority of the Changed. No problem, really - until he hookos up with Della, born and bred Changed but every bit as rebellious.
What the two of them start will tip their whole universe as they know it over on its side, and start it rolling downhill...
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