Zero Author:Derek Miller The story takes place in a world where, for purpose of population control, the monetary system has been replaced with time.Time is the medium of exchange. Each citizen is fitted with a time tracker that monitors the amount of time in said citizen's "time bank". Like money, a citizen can acquire 'time' through work, inheritence, gift etc. and can... more » likewise spend or lose time by way of purchases, mistakes, disasters, bad investments, failure etc. Into this astonishing world comes Teaser Broadnax, an unknowing participant in a ground-breaking experiment where the consequence of poverty . . . is death.CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)« less