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Proxy meets Handmaid's Tale, Breeder will force readers to ask how far they would go to decide their own fate. -- Joelle Charbonneau, New York Times bestselling author of the Testing Trilogy Honni van Rijswijk's debut is a thrilling ride through a not-too-distant future where state control over capital, sexuality, and labor is even more rigorously maintained than in our present moment. Although only by a bit--the prescience of Breeder is felt on every page where a militarized 'Corporation' knows everything about you and your desires. If there is hope for us, it derives from the queer and trans strategies of self-making and unmaking that van Rijswijk's characters devise: they have, and she has, much to teach us about resisting contemporary technologies of control. Plus, it's thrilling, sexy, and gorgeously paced. -- Grace Lavery, author of Please Miss Pacey, gritty and inventive, Breeder buzzes with a dark energy as it follows the fate of two teens trying to survive in a crumbling dystopian society where men are valued for their work productivity, and women for their reproductive ability. In this intricately imagined and grimly fascinating world, teenage friends Will and Alex find themselves trapped in the Corporation's frightening web. By taking us inside a dark nightmare that offers its protagonists no easy answers, Honni Van Rijswijk holds a fearless and ferocious mirror to our own lives. Written with gleaming prose, these characters are fully formed, and their triumphs and betrayals are as harrowing as they are heartfelt. A brilliant debut novel filled with heart-in-your-throat tension as it races toward a stunning finale. -- Poppy Gee, author of Bay of Fires and Vanishing Falls This short, fast-paced novel set in a futuristic yet terrifyingly familiar world is perfect for fans of Marie Lu's Legend series. Readers will find themselves fully immersed in the bleak Corporation landscape and the lives and fates of those struggling to survive...An absorbing tale of survival in a post-apocalyptic future. -- Kirkus Reviews Van Rijswijk's beautiful writing paints a vivid picture of a dystopian future where oceans are acid and the air itself is poisonous. As brutal as the world itself is, it's nothing compared to the people who inhabit it. Poignant and eerily timely, Breeder is a fast-paced sci-fi that reminds us a value can't be placed on our humanity. -- Lani Forbes, award-winning author of the Age of the Seventh Sun series Will is an engaging narrator, irreverent and fatalistic about his lot in life...The themes introduced are intriguing...This dystopian novel poses fascinating questions. -- School Library Journal

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Honni van Rijswijk is a writer, lawyer, and academic. Breeder is her debut novel. Her fiction has appeared in Southerly and was short-listed for Zoetrope: All-Story. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, where her research focuses on intersections between law, technology, and culture. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her partner and their daughter.

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