![]() ![]() The “Q scores” hang about the necks of Dalcher’s subjects from cradle to grave, determining their chances in life, social standings and even which queues they join at supermarkets. ![]() ![]() You will then have a better idea of what the Q entails. Picture a particularly insidious Experian credit score with dire, life-altering implications should it ever decrease. To clarify, Q isn’t a non-canon fictional biography of James Bond’s quartermaster rather, “the Q” is essentially a score for life, for Dalcher’s populace is ruled by a constantly fluctuating cipher. ![]() The only universal aspect is the sheer draconianism and totalitarian persecution meted out to all by the controversial “Q laws” from which, hypothetically, even the president himself wouldn’t be excepted. Not only is Q a welcome addition to the genre of dystopian fiction, I suspect it is also going to be an important one, as more readers come to discover its pages.ĭalcher’s is a future of alternate ethics and morals – an elitist and inegalitarian society in which “some … are more equal than others”, to paraphrase Orwell. Q is the second novel of bestselling author Christina Dalcher, a Georgetown-based doctor of theoretical linguistics. ![]()
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