Cancer Nation is a sprawling, edge-of-your-seat ride through a beautifully imagined, near-future world in which absolute power has corrupted absolutely and vigilance against the hive-mind is the only way to set an enslaved people free.

This story is your classic girl meets boy, but they’re kinda slaves on a man-made planet. Aw. Then they escape! Yay! But he dies? Bummer. New guy comes along though. Cute. Now they’re going to fight back? You should probably just read it...