Lifestock, (Paperback)

<p>Aboard the interstellar vessel Oikos 5, a civilisation is crossing the dark toward a new world. The journey takes generations. The Company has made sure certain people will live to see it completed.</p><p>Noah has been alive for centuries. He is the ship's historian - ancient, habituated, quietly burdened by a past so long it has stopped feeling like one. He knows how the ship works. He knows what is required of him. Tomorrow, it is his turn.</p><p>Lillie is a teacher in the lower colonies. This morning, two guards were waiting outside her classroom. They told her it was something good. They told her not to worry.</p><p>She is nine months pregnant, and she has just been escorted - for the first time in her life - into the part of the ship she was never supposed to see.</p><p>These two people will never meet. What connects them is something neither of them will say aloud, in a system built on the assumption that the people who bear its cost will never be told what it is.</p><p><i>Lifestock</i> is a novel about the distance between knowledge and ignorance, between centuries and a single day, between a life preserved and a life that has just begun. It is told in two voices moving toward the same moment from opposite ends of the same ship - one who understands exactly what is coming, and one who does not.</p>

• Lifestock, (Paperback)
• Author: Florian Egger
• ISBN: 9798255057917
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-10
• Page Count: 176