We’re so excited to reveal the gorgeous cover for The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan!
A stunning literary sci-fi mosaic novel set in a futuristic Bangalore, The Ten Percent Thief celebrates how the smallest seeds can start the biggest revolutions.
Out in hardback, eBook and audiobook in March 2023!
Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.
Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.
With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent – the Virtual elite – and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.
The system has no flaws. Until the elusive “Ten Percent Thief” steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.
Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.
‘A masterful work of science fiction, complex and engaging.’ – S.B. Divya, Nebula Award finalist and author of Runtime
‘This is fiction playing for the highest stakes – and winning.’ – Chandrahas Choudhury, author of Clouds
‘A high velocity anthem sung through the shape of things to come.’ – Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nebula Award finalist and author of The Inhuman Race