“The year 2033. The British Empire never fell. Communism never happened. The flag of the Commonwealth still flies over its colonies, which lie stripped bare in the name of British interests, powerless to resist. To the Far East, the Second Song Emperor rules China, and meditates upon an electronic kingdom built behind the Bamboo Curtain. Upon this stage is Ceylon — a once-proud civilization tracing itself back to the time of the Pharaohs, reduced to ashes and dust, but not yet dead, for the Great Houses of Kandy still control the most lucrative trade routes. In this surreal landscape, where technology and humanity intersect and where children are no longer the innocent, but built to kill, we meet The Silent Girl – a survivor, an explorer, a threat. The Inhuman Race is a magnificent novel about what it means to be human, and how history can come back to haunt us even as we race into the future.”–Page 4 of cover.