When the two are ensnared in multiple, high-level conspiracies, they must decide for themselves what resistance looks like in a world where ethics is a luxury. And Rudra, a gamer recluse pulled into Delhi’s corporate culture economy following his powerful father’s death. The City Inside follows two 20-something protagonists: Joey, a Reality Controller who supervises the multi-reality influencer streams that have evolved from today’s influencer culture. I think it’s the last five years, even more than then the pandemic in particular, but the pandemic accelerated all of these feelings and observations for everyone.” “It’s a sad truth that things like the decline of democracy are now subjects that everyone in the world has to be concerned about. His “anti-dystopian” novel, out today, is set in a near-future Delhi where corporate and government entities track everything you do and the attention economy has found even more invasive, thorough ways to commandeer our lives. “When I was writing it, it was so local to me,” says the 42-year-old author, when we talk from different sides of the planet via Zoom.
Samit Basu didn’t expect for The City Inside to connect with audiences outside of his home country of India.
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