Category 13
Seeking Representation
“You see, the problem with Fahrenheit 451 is that there’s no need to forbid books, because who reads books anymore, right?”
Category 13 explores the life of a New Yorker suddenly forced to exist in a society where everyday technological tools - connected devices, personal assistants, social networks - allow the newly elected president, a boisterous authoritarian, to exert a tight control on the population. Soon her friend’s disappearance leads her to forsake her comfortable existence and get drawn to the margins of society to find her as chaos spreads in the country.
This book questions the place of seemingly innocuous technology in our modern lives and the potential for social control that it represents, in a setting strikingly similar to our society. As inequalities explode and democratic governments slide ever closer to autocratic rule around the planet; we find ourselves confronted to this explosive cocktail.