![]() ![]() The reasonable and responsible old-guard scythes have mostly all been eliminated, and the most corrupt and power-hungry scythe of all has taken over, with the goal of nothing less than world domination. In The Toll, the world is, basically, going to hell in a handbasket. And it works, for the most part… except that it’s still true that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and there are those among the scythedom who revel in their own power and the thrill of the kill, rather than seeing themselves as servants of the greater good. To preserve the fine balance of resources and needs, the only authority left in the world is the scythedom - people given the authority and responsibility to “glean” a certain percentage of the world’s population in order to make sure that the perfect world can continue to support everyone who’s left. ![]() ![]() In these books, author Neal Shusterman presents a post-mortal world, where an all-knowing AI has become sentient and has solved all of the world’s problems, from starvation to disease to crime to poverty. The Toll wraps up the futuristic story begun in 2016’s Scythe and continued in 2018’s Thunderhead. ![]()
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