If their parents declare war, they will be killed. So, Talis found a better way: “make it personal.” He established a system to hold the children of all world leaders hostage, rounding them up in Preceptures from childhood until the age of eighteen. That helped, but it wasn’t a strategy that could last forever. And Talis did-by blowing up a city every time a new conflict broke out. Desperate, the UN turned control over to a pioneering form of artificial intelligence, Talis, tasking him with maintaining world peace. Freshwater became scarce, and the remaining countries went to war over this limited resource. The novel’s premise is that after the polar ice caps melted, many countries sunk beneath the ocean with disastrous results. Her other works include Plain Kate and Sorrow’s Knot. Bow was a physicist and poet before becoming a young adult novelist. But things change when a new hostage is introduced, one who hasn’t been indoctrinated to accept his fate. Most hostages accept that they may die before age eighteen. The children of all the world leaders are being held hostage in exchange for peace between all nations if any nation goes to war, its heir is murdered. Set four hundred years in the future, it is about a post-apocalyptic world run by AI. The Scorpion Rules is a dystopian young adult novel by Erin Bow, published in 2015.
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