The Luminary
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The Revolution is over, the segregation policies discriminating Prodigies have been finally eliminated, and everything seems to have been settled down for the sake of Alex Mars at last.
...or is that really so?
A minor scandal that started in the Military grabs Alex Mars' ankle to reveal the real truth of what the new, hopeful country he had brought to life had become and had been hiding-and, even the stories of a closely interconnected past he had never been aware of.
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