First score by Danny Schade

Welcome to Wheel: a perfect globe without poverty, disease, or need. Tinkered and tuned in every way for maximum order by Rank and Spoke, every kid knows her destiny – so long as she can take the neural implant.

The defective, whose bodies reject the implants, do not exist. Spirits. Cyphers. Haunting the sides of culture, living on scraps, wiped out for sport. A lucky few, the Crudrats, scrape out a perilous living washing the toxic wastes from the great machines that power the place.

Meet up with Maura. Cypher. Crudrat. Grown as well tall, alone in a spaceport with no use on her behalf, doomed to starve. With only her crud-eating murmel and an alien monster to greatly help her, she must discover a way to survive, or get away, before they catch her and blow what’s left of her lifestyle, and her companions, into space.

From the pen of Gail Carriger, ArtisticWhispers Productions presents an unabridged full-cast young-adult adventure that brings golden age-style science-fiction into the 21st century, stuffs it filled with heart and provides it a finely polished, gleaming edge.