Rae Mariz

Kid knows her school’s corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It’s all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Everyday, a captive audience of students ages 13-17 enter the nationwide chain store-like Game locations to play. When a group calling themselves The Unidentified simulates a suicide to protest the power structure of their school, Kid’s investigation into their pranks attracts unwanted attention from the sponsors. As Kid finds out she doesn't have rights to her ideas, her privacy, or identity, she and her friends look for a way to revolt in a place where all acts of rebellion are just spun into the next new ad campaign.

AN UNDERWATER TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AGAINST MONSTROUS ODDS When Ceph, a squid-like scientist, discovers proof of the ocean’s slowing currents, she makes the dangerous ascent from her deep-sea civilization to the uncharted surface above. Out of her depths and helpless in her symbiotic mech suit, Ceph relies on Iliokai, a seal-folk storyteller, who sings the state of the sea and has seen evidence of clogged currents as she surfs the time gyres throughout the lonely blue. Navigating the perils of their damaged ocean environment, and seemingly insurmountable cultural differences, Ceph and Iliokai realize that the activities of terrestrial beings are slowing the spiralling currents of time. On a journey that connects future and past, the surface and the deep, the unlikely friends struggle to solve a problem so big it needs a leviathan solution.

[Estados Unidos. Dentro de algunas décadas] Los fondos para educación se han acabado. Por eso se ha implantado el Juego: un entorno educativo instalado en antiguos centros comerciales donde los estudiantes pasan el día aprendiendo a través del juego. Mientras ellos aprenden, las grandes marcas los observan en busca de las tendencias de consumo. El éxito de un estudiante es ser patrocinado por una marca que le proporcione los medios para garantizar su educación. Si el sistema beneficia a todos, ¿por qué ha aparecido un grupo llamado los Sin Identidad que se opone al Juego haciendo gamberradas siniestras? ¿Y si la libertad consiste en no ser diferente?