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Stranded in PEDS by James S. Dorr
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This sounds like an interesting dystopia--the best kind, where the writer takes what already exists and just move it a bit.
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Scary how frightening our own realities can be, isn't it?
When you start reading both sides of the story, the difference between the Peds and the Riders, you can’t help but think of similarities that we can see in our present society, but with a more complicated security system, where the Peds can’t even move out of their homes without being run over by a car. At first, I couldn’t understand why Robert just didn’t walk away and return to his own life, but later you realize that in this futuristic world no one else remembers you but yourself, clearing a mistake, is complicated. The ones Robert thought were his friends, didn’t even bother to look for him.
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Peds by James S. Dorr:
In a near-future world where the car is king and the people are divided between those who ride on a network of highways connecting the glittering hubs of the city, and those left on foot -- the lowly “Peds” -- who inhabit the lands that lie between them, Robert Balkoner has always believed these latter, even if disadvantaged, are well cared for by the city as a whole. These beliefs are shattered, however, when a freak auto accident thrusts him among the Peds, and he discovers a system more varied, complex, and sometimes horrific, than anything he might have imagined. Yet even here Balkoner also can find love, as well as a handful of rebels willing to barter their lives in a quest to improve conditions for themselves and their fellows. A novelette.