| Antheads Contributor(s): Leh Papa, Sagpi (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798592389528 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.28 lbs) 438 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the bloodstained desert of this world's most neglected country, a human-sized anthill stands. The remaining citizens of a former nomadic tribe spend each breath of their waking hours in benefit of an authority they do not know. Just like the insects -which have their own role in this convicted society, as well-, their lives price about nothing. Serving, breeding, and crushing beneath the soles of inattentive walkers; born to die. But humans, unlike ants, possess the unlucky trait of rational thinking. How can a herd of fully developed people live in such a simplified matrix, when their brains are designed to bear the havoc of mankind? A nineteen-year-old boy opens his eyes to this distorted reality, one morning. Actually, the first and only morning of his life. His neurons dispersed, he stumbles around the strange place that is his home, in search of answers for inexistent questions. Something is not quite right about the promises of labor-based recovery they have all been given. Long shifts of manual work certainly don't seem like the best cure for their heads - even less so, those bizarre sessions of psychological games he is scheduled for. And this purple-eyed youngling he has for a roommate is giving off the stink of hidden secrets. Every mystery shall have its solution, and every thread must catch up to a pattern eventually. Unless, of course, you only have twenty-four hours of a brain to sew it. "Antheads" is a young-adult, sci-fi novel that follows the creation, functioning and ruptures of an isolated society, where everyone is treated equally in the worst of ways. Seen through the eyes of a young jailbird -and the shades of his family, scattered in his mixed-up memories-, fiction and history entwine slowly in a world of cement boundaries. |