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O brave new world, that has such people in't.

Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house.

What does it mean?

It's a truism of our time that it'll be the…

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1 author picked Gliff as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Loving and learning so much from historical photographs, this dystopian novel is close to my heart because it is about the dangers of contemporary technological video surveillance and control.
Two children return home and find the house is surrounded by a painted red line. The children have become undesirables or ‘unverifieds’ probably because of their activist mother. They must leave but cannot risk being seen or overheard on camera and cannot use any devices themselves. Finding a vacant house in which to squat they meet an elderly woman Oona who teaches them how to forage and live under the radar.…

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