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Shades of Grey

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a “laugh-out-loud funny” (Los Angeles Times) and “brilliantly original” (Booklist, starred review) novel of a man attempting to navigate a color-coded world.

“A rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness.”—The Washington Post

Welcome to Chromatacia, where the Colortocracy rules society through a social hierarchy based on one’s limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see.

Eddie Russet ...

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Here’s a trope that pops up in sci-fi and fantasy stories more than you might realize: societies broken down by color coding. Sometimes it is handled subtly, but sometimes, authors put it front-and-center in different ways, making the subtext into text. The 14 books and series below make no secret of their use of color to […]
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