Codicia

Luz is a girl who lives with her family in a Recuncho, a poor and deserted place from which the only way to escape is if one is worthy of the Fertility Lottery, a very precious commodity in a dystopian world ravaged by the inability to reproduce. Forcibly taken to the Western Capital to bear as many offspring as her womb will allow -- offspring that will become the property of the elites known as The Families. Luz will have access to a privileged education within the LifeCorps that will eventually translate into a brilliant scientific career. Together with Kalpana, she will make a discovery that will forever change the history of humanity. In another timeline that takes place after the Great Disconnection, three beings created from plant matter, but with human form, are captured by Augustus Paul, a descendant of the man who was General Director of LifeCorps and who knows their true nature. Her goal will be to enslave and exploit them in order to continue amassing fortune, privilege and status in the ruins of human civilization. The different destiny of Dandara, Seh-Dong and Tassi will put the dominant structures in check. Greed, winner of the 1st Pinto e Maragota Award for sexual and gender diversity, is an exciting science fiction novel that places María Reimóndez in the orbit of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, Akwaeke Emezi and Manjula Padmanabhan. The author offers us a revolutionary reflection on the construction of sex and gender, sexual identities and orientations and the exploitation of the female body, as well as a profound feminist and ecological look at the future of our planet.