The Offset (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780857669186)

It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick?

In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death.

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 things aren't working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life's work?

In the meantime, her daughter Miri, an anti-natalist, has run away from home. 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. Which parent will Miri pick to die: the one she loves, or the one she hates who is working to save the world?

File Under: Science Fiction [ Only One Leaves The Choice is Yours Last Hope Counting Down ]

Author: Calder Szewczak, Natasha Calder, Emma Szewczak
ISBN-10: 0857669184
ISBN-13: 9780857669186
Publisher: Angry Robot
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2021
Booklist 08/20/2021