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Anna Alla is a young, gifted woman with a mouth to match. Unfortunately, her attitude leaves her vulnerable in the society she lives in. Her home, Astraios, is a tidally locked planet with one side always facing the sun, and one side always facing the night; the same way our moon faces the earth. Both extremes are uninhabitable, leaving only the narrow space between dusk and dawn for the people of Astraios to live. The society built around this unique world demands austerity. With a caste system designed to remind the inhabitants of their place in the world, there is no moving up, and every chance to be moved down (Downgraded). There is no home. Members of the higher castes travel on trains from one city to the next, working a week at a time assigned to jobs based on their caste. The lowest cast, Walkers, walk the tracks in a perpetual loop, clearing the tracks of debris. No one owns more than the clothes they wear, the most basic essentials, and the food they eat. Anna Alla fit neatly into the lowest level of the middle caste (Specialists) as a child. To satisfy her love of history, she hoped to be assigned to maintenance of the oldest equipment on Astraios. Instead, she finds herself downgraded and living a life she doesn't understand. Anna has to find a way to overcome her situation and her tendency to make her situation worse in ways she can't fully appreciate. With her newly found friends, the nerdy outcast ekes out a place for herself and shares a new way of thinking that is a threat to the leaders of her society. Anna Alla's life is hard, but one of her own making, for better or for worse.

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