Ordell (Reality Gradient)

In Ordell, the bridge novella connecting Models and Citizens with Bodhi Rising, Ordell Bentley finds himself relentlessly recruited by a terrorist organization known as the Siblings of the Natural Order (SNO). Though fighting for the freedom of all enslaved models, genetically altered clones like Ordell who do menial and dehumanizing jobs required to prop-up a society struggling with population decline, the methods SNO employ turns Ordell's stomach. Even if his life-long friend Phineas Lancaster leads the group, and even though Ordell wants to help other models achieve freedom, or relative freedom, as he did, Ordell resists joining.On the cusp of a nationwide uprising, Lancaster sees Ordell as a necessary component to his plan, using the only free model to drive recruitment. He sees violence as a means to an end, and besides, how many models die every day at the hands of their owners? With wide ambitions to stop the reclamation facilities, mass-death camps for unwanted models who are too old or too broken to do their jobs, Lancaster and others in SNO are relentless in pursuing Ordell's membership.Will he join? And if he, will it be too late to save the only legitimate resistance organization for model rights? Read more