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“So I’m going to die here, under a dome, living out a half-life like those zoo animals back on Earth, with a whole planet that I’ll never be able to see or touch ,” the boy said flatly. “And this is all I’ll know of life.”
What do you do when the world you were given is huge but your place in it is tiny?
He grew up under a dome on a distant planet, raised by people who wanted to do everything right this time. No wars. No waste. No cruelty. Just a small, careful, loving attempt at something better.
But he is sixteen with a whole world just outside the glass and he’s been told his whole life that it should be left alone. Life inside is no simpler. There’s Beatrice. He doesn’t know where he fits with her, or anywhere at all.
The Zoo is the story of a boy who’s trying to navigate a new world and, along with a girl who means the world to him, trying to create a society where everyone has a place.
The problem isn’t piracy. The problem is obscurity — Cory Doctorow.
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