The year is 170 PF (2200 CE). Money is gone. Everyone has enough. Since GERAS, almost no one dies, and the scarce things (a month in a writing cabin under the northern lights, a seat to Mars) are allocated by a number: the Queue Quotient.
Dar Rax checks that number for a living. He’s an equeuenomist, a man who counts things, and on a quiet November morning his partner, Comai Safed, finds a record that shouldn’t exist: one citizen’s score climbing, quarter after quarter, like a spire in a flat desert.
Someone is cheating the Queue. Following the anomaly will cost Dar more than his job. It leads into his own family, into a city that was built underground on purpose, and into a question he has been running from for a hundred years: in a world that has solved survival, what is any of it for?
The Spire is a quiet, wintry mystery about fraud, grief, brothers, and the stubborn search for meaning, the first book in a seven-book series about a society that got almost everything right.
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