Subscription Children

SUBSCRIPTION CHILDREN is a 97,000-word standalone science fiction novel with three POVs. It can be compared to the video game Detroit: Become Human and the books Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick.

EverLife Industries has made even the most minor problems a thing of the past. Among their products, none were more impactful than androids. They were designed to be just about anything, including children.

Emelia Ocean is just such an android. A former subscription child herself, now, she just wants to live a peaceful life pretending to be human with an adopted daughter. But two people aim to disturb that peace.

Maki Satori, a feature journalist, is given a two-week deadline to write an earth-shattering story to save her job and Isaiah Castille, a heavily modified human working for EverLife, is tasked with decommissioning androids to save his livelihood. Emelia is caught in the middle with one intent on digging up her past; the other, stealing her future.