President of the Planet

Year 2096. After the greatest crisis, the world split into two parts: the rich—"tharriors"—enjoy the benefits of civilization, using the services of robots and drones, while the poor live mired in poverty and crime. But even those who have everything want more: several powerful families unite to overthrow the Kelvins as rulers of the world by seizing their company. For the children of the Kelvins, there’s only one way out—run. They’ll have to come down from the cloudless heights into a new filthy world. To get their home back and avenge their family, they must go through the hell of slums, learn hunger and fear, pain and humiliation. Will they manage not to lose themselves? And what will they find in their search for a way home?

A book by the well-known blogger CHBU, author of the philosophical cosmic story «Stone Skies». «President of the Planet» is a story about the future—an alternative look at what the world might become in only a few decades and what kind of people we’ll be in it. A novel about the facets of the human essence: how far someone can sink in the pursuit of profit—or simply trying to save their life. How cruel the people in whose hands even minimal power ends up can be. How careless people become when surrounding gold dazzles them—and how ruthless they are when they feel their strength. A story about life at the top of the world and the fall to the very bottom. Chases, a dynamic plot, and shocking frankness of some scenes.