Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically modified willow trees. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice, so for every birth, there must be a death. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated and abhorred. In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. The book has been compared to Sophie's Choice and The Handmaid's Tale, and described as "the science fiction novel for our times" by science journalist Angela Saini. THE OFFSET is a work of science fiction that explores the issues of environmentalism and anti-natalism, positing a world in which, on their eighteenth birthday, every child must choose one of their parents to die as a carbon offset for their own life.
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