The City Inside

A highly anticipated 2022 release for Polygon | The Washington Post | The Nerd Daily | BookBub |The Philadelphia Inquirer |The Portalist | Tor.com

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future.
"They'd known the end times were coming but hadn't known they'd be multiple choice."
Joey is a Reality Controller in near-future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia's fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey's job gives her considerable culture power, but she's too caught up in day-to-day crisis handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life.
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