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Expiration Day

by William Campbell Powell
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It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction....
Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.
Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania's life are not real?
Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth "birthdays," teknoids must be returned to Oxted—never to be heard from again.
Told in diary format, Expiration Day is the powerful and poignant story of a young girl coming of age and discovering what it means to be truly human by a talented debut novelist.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Publisher: Tor Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: April 22, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781466838406
  • Release date: April 22, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781466838406
  • File size: 595 KB
  • Release date: April 22, 2014
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Kindle Book
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subjects

Science Fiction Young Adult Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.2
Lexile® Measure:760
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:3-4

It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction....
Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.
Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania's life are not real?
Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth "birthdays," teknoids must be returned to Oxted—never to be heard from again.
Told in diary format, Expiration Day is the powerful and poignant story of a young girl coming of age and discovering what it means to be truly human by a talented debut novelist.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Expand title description text
Science Fiction Young Adult Fiction