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It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction….  Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.  Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania’s life are not real?  Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers.



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William Campbell Powell

William Campbell Powell was born in Sheffield, England, and grew up in and around Birmingham. He attended King Edward's School in Birmingham and won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, where initially he studied Natural Sciences before switching to Computer Science. He now lives in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with his wife and two teenage sons. "Expiration Day "is his first novel.



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