SuitabookThe thousandth floor
Katharine McGee
- Reading
- Before reading, discuss whether futuristic technology and social position change the characters’ choices. Afterwards, compare whose ambitions receive sympathy and whether secrecy, romance or betrayal changes anyone’s circumstances.
- Themes
- Ambition, status and loss: The tower’s floors and the characters’ different circumstances frame a future society in which people want things and have something to lose. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Secrecy and betrayal: Watt spies on an upper-floor girl and becomes caught in lies, while Eris faces a betrayal that affects her family. The story appears to examine how concealed actions affect relationships, but it is not clear whether deception is condemned, excused or rewarded.
- Technology, identity and perfection: The future city is described as innovative, and Avery is genetically designed to be perfect while lacking something she can never have. The premise raises questions about engineered perfection and personal identity, but does not show whether genetic design is praised, criticised or simply part of the setting.
- Worth knowing
- Some readers may want to discuss how the story handles drug use, family rupture, romance, spying and lies.