SuitabookHex
Rhiannon Lassiter
- Reading
- Consider reading together if the threat of state action might be unsettling. Pause to check how the agency’s actions are shown, since the level of detail and the story’s resolution are unclear.
- Themes
- Surveillance and government power: The story is set in a society where inhabitants are watched closely, with a secret agency responsible for finding Hexes. The premise raises questions about state monitoring, but does not establish how the narrative judges it.
- Genetics and difference: Hexes possess a gene, created by a scientist, that enables them to merge with the Net; the agency seeks them out. The premise connects a genetically defined ability with state attention, but does not show how the story interprets that difference.
- Worth knowing
- The agency is said to “terminate” Hexes, indicating a threat of serious harm.