The Taxonomy of Hunger
On Ceres, hunger is not a failure of crops or supply lines—it’s a curated signal, metered by corporate law and mediated by implants that translate need into compliant behavior. Mara Venn, an ex-neurochemist turned black-market auditor, is hired to verify the fairness of a ration algorithm that everyone secretly fears. What she finds is not a bug, but a philosophy: an intentional gradient of deprivation designed to sculpt desire, loyalty, and revolt. In a habitat where even ap…
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