Lotus

Sinossi

In 2047, the world no longer raises animals. All meat comes from Alped Corporation and its miracle product, PROTEAN - cheap, tasty, and mandatory. Jack Sullivan, 17, is the last real farmer. Raised on food from the land, he is the only one at his school who tastes the real flavor of PROTEAN: iron, rot, and medicine. To everyone else it is delicious. To him, it is human flesh. When his childhood crush, Lia Alped - daughter of the man who invented PROTEAN - comes back thin, pale, and refusing to eat, Jack joins his friends Mike and Wallace to investigate. What they find inside their favorite game, in the school cafeteria, and on Alped's vertical farms will shatter reality. They are not eating animals. They are eating people who are still alive. And the more you eat, the less you want to stop.

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“La maggiore forza di questi capitoli è l'ambientazione. Quart City, con il suo cielo grigio-giallastro, l'odore di ferro nell'aria e la città bianca e 'troppo perfetta per essere umana', crea un contrasto molto efficace con la fattoria della famiglia di Jack. La Strada di Transizione è un'idea brillante: in poche righe mostra il conflitto tra il naturale e l'artificiale senza bisogno di spiegazioni. Alped e la PROTEAN funzionano come una satira tagliente del consumo cieco e della pubblicità, e i commercial urlati in TV conferiscono un tono oscuro e ironico al mondo. Il ritmo è anche azzeccato. Il capitolo 1 presenta routine, famiglia, scuola e conflitti senza fretta, e termina con l'intera mensa che fissa Jack per 'aver commesso il crimine di non mangiare'. Il capitolo 2 alza il livello con il glitch nel Harvest World, e l'immagine della mucca con occhi umani, insieme al file Lotus_001, è il tipo di rivelazione che resta impressa nella mente del lettore. Il capitolo 3 consegna l'apice dell'orrore, con la cena a casa di Wallace, la carne che pulsa e la caccia finale. La crescita della tensione è ben costruita, e i cliffhanger alla fine del capitolo fanno venire voglia di continuare. I personaggi hanno identità chiare. Jack è un protagonista simpatico, con il giusto bagaglio emotivo: l'avvertimento dei genitori, lo stomaco che rifiuta la PROTEAN, il vecchio amore per Lia. Wallace e Mike portano umorismo e leggerezza, e la dinamica tra i tre suona naturale. Lia è il punto culminante emotivo: la leader coraggiosa che difende Jack, la figlia del proprietario che sogna di diventare agricoltrice e la ragazza che si avvizzisce lentamente. Questo mistero su di lei dà profondità e anche carica drammatica. Il momento in cui scuote la testa, avvisando 'NON MANGIARE' dalla finestra, è molto potente. Infine, il tono è coerente: orrore aziendale con tocchi di umorismo giovanile. La scena con i genitori di Wallace, con sorrisi fissi, occhi che non battono ciglio e una gentilezza che si trasforma in minaccia, è molto ben realizzata e inquietante. Questo trio di capitoli forma un'ottima apertura, con un mondo distinto, domande intriganti (il siero S-9, il progetto Loto, cosa fa davvero Alped) e un'identità propria che cattura il lettore.”

Totale: 4,264 parole
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Capítulo 1- piloto

915 parole•~5 min
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Capítulo 2- MAS QUE

1,093 parole•~6 min
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Capítulo 3- Banquete Especial

1,184 parole•~6 min
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CAPÍTULO 4 - MANSÃO?

1,072 parole•~6 min

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