Revolt of the Lamebren

What if you are born with a termination date? Would you be ready to die at sixteen? 
In the Super-Dome of the future, Altklugs are born with the super-knowledge and efficiency of 6.25 human years, in their one year.
Zinnia is one of the Lamebren, normal humans missing the ace inputs in this world. As she and others like her grapple with their clipped, carefully monitored and suffocating life in the Super-Dome, they face the looming threat of their termination dates.
Startling events and unexpected dark secrets reveal the decay, cruel intentions and repercussions of the Altklug world, making Zinnia realise that it is up to her to challenge their pre-decided destiny.
Through a vortex of extreme adversities and life-threatening danger as well as painful self-realisation, Zinnia bravely fights the world of the Altklugs for justice and equality.
Would she and her friends win the fight for the survival of the Lamebren and beat their termination dates?
Revolt of the Lamebren, the first book in the Super-Dome Chronicles saga, is Zinnia’s daring and exciting journey of survival.

PROLOGUE

If I don’t write it down, it could all get lost. I don’t have a Memory Porter like the Altklugs that would accumulate memories in digital capsules, for generations to refer to.All I have is a pen and some paper, a very limited stock mind you, but still it has to suffice to create a record. Frankly, it isn’t entirely my story to tell and I don’t even know where to begin. . . . With a background of the Altklugs and the way they function? With a description of their Ace-world you have to see to believe? With the Altklugs themselves who are miniature representations of us, but with the brain power of hundreds of us? Or quite simply, a sketch of the deep Snarl, where I am right now, struggling with the imagery and the sheer existence of untouched wilderness, in abundance all around me? 

I think I’ll begin by sharing with you an extract from an article by Preceptor Amadeus, which appeared in the Altklug Thermiodical:

It couldn’t be called the end of civilisation yet, but if this continued, it soon could. I know that I may be penalised for saying this, or even sent to the Dissolution Crypt, but I will speak out. I am a Thinker and it is my duty to tell the world of Altklugs—to change their way of thinking. I was right there, in front of the Dissolution Crypt yesterday when the current batch of lamebren was sent in. To some they may look like over-sized, gangling creatures. But to me, they looked like frightened lamebren, pitiable, unaware of their fate and more of a danger to themselves than to the Altklugs. When the siren announced their departure, I was startled. I had no idea that the scene would stir such strong emotions within me. In bare minimum words: it felt wrong. Why can’t the Governor approach this problem differently? In today’s advanced age, when we have total control over emotions, maturity, nature, knowledge and technology, why should Age Progression be such a threat? Why should the lamebren be such a threat to our existence? Can’t we experiment? And by that I do NOT mean using the lamebren in the labs to experiment on, as is the latest hot topic of debate! I mean, why can’t we give the lamebren a chance? Please, this is my appeal to all the Altklugs—those with political clout and power as well as those with the civil consensus—please, awaken from your rigid models of mechanism and give nature a chance.

The day this article appeared in the Thermiodical, Preceptor Amadeus received a legal Thermiotice. He was accused of disrupting the peace of the Altklug Super-Dome and threatened with dire consequences if he continued such practices. I have no idea if Preceptor Amadeus paid heed to the warnings or showed any caution, however, I do know that while he was trying to create awareness of an importantissue that could save many lives, there was someone else, just awakening to the need of self-preservation.

She was No. G23 and though known by that tag for all purposes, her name was Zinnia. A lamebirl in an Altklug world, Zinnia is unlike any other lamebirl I know. She is incomparable and in many ways remarkable. This is as much her story as that of every lamebren. I have gathered it all together, in bits and pieces. Sometimes I was a witness to the events while at most times I wasn’t, but in all essence, this is definitely Zinnia’s brave struggle for justice and survival of lamebren.

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