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Synopsis
The Dragon Man is the story of Sara, a teenager growing up in a post-Crash household, struggling with the burden of having eight parents and conducting the remainder of her personal life in virtual space. In a world in which everyone lives for hundreds of years, children are very scarce—but not as scarce as people who were born during the Crash, who grew old before biotechnology reached the pitch of sophistication required to keep them young.Sara’s first tentative attempt to assert her individuality, by equipping her artificial second skin with a purple rose, has unexpected side-effects. Her quest to correct the error brings her into contact with the two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Dragon Man—an encounter that gives her the opportunity to put her life into a broader perspective, and to gain a better understanding of what e-mortality might mean for herself and the whole human world.
Is The Dragon Man appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
A thoughtful science fiction story about a teenager navigating identity in a future where people live for centuries. No violence, romance, or objectionable content—focused on philosophical questions about immortality and self-discovery.
What to know going in
This book has no graphic violence, no sexual content, and clean language.
Who'll love this
Teens will connect with Sara's struggle to find her own identity in a world where everyone lives forever.