The forty-first year of the Restitution Act. Debtors who cannot pay are drafted, and every Sunday night OmniCast broadcasts them live from the Golden Crucible, hunted by a chrome-armoured champion called the Lancer. Vik Desai keeps the cameras running, and tells himself that is all he does. Eleven hours before air, through the lens he is repairing, he sees his little sister Asha's face on this week's contestant banner. A dystopian thriller of debt, spectacle and complicity.
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The forty-first year of the Restitution Act. Debtors who cannot pay are drafted, and every Sunday night OmniCast broadcasts them live from the Golden Crucible, hunted by a chrome-armoured champion called the Lancer. Vik Desai keeps the cameras running, and tells himself that is all he does. Eleven hours before air, through the lens he is repairing, he sees his little sister Asha's face on this week's contestant banner. A dystopian thriller of debt, spectacle and complicity.