Solo Agers: Book 1 - Kakistocracy, Myron Ward, 2025
America is experiencing a collapse in fertility rates. The scapegoat is "Solo Agers," elderly people who never had children. They are rounded up by the government, using SWAT teams, and given a one-way trip to "retirement havens" (prison).
In sewer tunnels, one female doctor performs secret retinal modifications to help people avoid the regime. Each life she saves gets her closer to freeing her husband, and get them both to Indonesia, where Solo Agers are not considered criminals. The FBI is on the case, and in the sewer tunnels, this one doctor becomes an unintentional spark of resistance.
This is a short novel, about 65 pages, but it belongs on the
same level as The Handmaid's Tale. It is very dystopian, very plausible and
very much worth reading. I look forward to future books in this series.
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