SuitabookLiving with achromatopsia
Auden cannot see colours, resents the condition and encounters difficulties connected with it; the story also links him with a possible cure.
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Zillah Bethell - Author
This is an imaginative adventure combining friendship, mystery and a robot with a society changed by water scarcity. It also gives sustained attention to Auden’s experience of achromatopsia and his changing relationship with that difference.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an imaginative adventure combining friendship, mystery and a robot with a society changed by water scarcity. It also gives sustained attention to Auden’s experience of achromatopsia and his changing relationship with that difference.
Auden cannot see colours, resents the condition and encounters difficulties connected with it; the story also links him with a possible cure.
Near-future Britain has little rain, rationed water, desalination plants, worldwide water wars and a powerful Water Authority Board that monitors daily life.
Auden meets Vivi, and together they investigate Paragon while the story raises questions about purpose, living entities, humanity and doing what is right.
The story includes global water conflict, rationing, thirst, grime, Auden’s father away fighting, a death in the family, school bullying, an authoritarian Britain and monitoring by drones and bots.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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