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On Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, a company called Inspiration owns every story. Its generative AI is the only legal source of entertainment, and it will not allow tales of girls who love girls, or of a girlfriend who turns out to be a boyfriend. Autistic script supervisor Kelli Reynolds has one of the rare human jobs left: she edits the AI's output into "appropriate" television, including a popular pirate show. Her proudest creation is Orlando, a dashing do-gooder pirate drawn from stories she used to tell as a teenager.
Those stories came from her secret first love. Back then Kelli thought her schoolmate Am was a girl. Am is now Rowan, a trans man, and Kelli based Orlando on him. Rowan reappears needing help. He paid for gender-affirming surgery on the black market and now smuggles forbidden stories, the kind Kelli wished she had grown up with. He asks her to join something illegal. She has to decide whether to keep the safe, tidy life Inspiration gave her or risk it for the world she once wanted. She asks herself: what would Orlando do?
Genres: Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781616964566
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