Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. If she passes, sheAAA1/2ll be admitted into The Academy AAA1/2 the elite institution that runs her utopian society.
But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history sheAAA1/2s been taught isnAAA1/2t the whole story. And that The Academy isnAAA1/2t what she believes it to be.
AnaxAAA1/2s examination leads us into a future where ancient AAA1/2 eternal AAA1/2 philosophical questions have dramatically collided with the march of technology, where just what it means to be human is up for debate, and where the concealed stain of an 'original sin' threatens the very existence of her brave new world.