Isaac Westwell
ASIN: B014PU7T0Y
Publisher: BLW Media Group
Pages: 41
Kai is a nobody. 一无所有 (yìwúsuǒyǒu), or "poor as dirt" as they say in the martian city of Mazhou. Mazhou is a city that more closely resembles a petri dish than a civilization. "A test tube of Darwinian economics mixed with cultural sterility."And Kai - she's just an unremarkable woman in a hellish, inescapable society. Statistically average in every way, and terribly isolated even from those in her direct vicinity. A recluse among recluses. A person with no interest in escaping the dystopic hive of dwindling commerce that is Mazhou. And despite the horrendous pay she earns at the quarry, she remains a devoted light machinery technician of the ubiquitous Chara Corporation. A true champion of mediocrity, but one that never had better alternatives.It’s this mediocrity in particular that makes her so perfectly suited for the Mivax vaccine study, which is presented to her by her shrewd and ...