Briar and Rose, the two siblings at the heart of Gliff, live in a world that feels like an uncomfortably believable near-future version of our own. People still use smartphones, and they’re always glued to them. Most kids have an “educator” (a smartwatch) strapped to their wrist, and it records every interaction they have. Everyone’s identity and family history is logged in detail on the cloud and can be pulled up via facial recognition — except for “unverifiables” like Briar and Rose, who reject contemporary technology and live on the fringes of society, evading detection. If captured, unverifiables are forced to undergo “reeducation” and given work assignments that often
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