Alice's Order

by Nathalie De Los Santos

In 2140, Alice is a sixteen-year-old girl and genius. She became a weapon developer after her sister, Dawn, was killed in an Empyrean terrorist attack. Alice then rises up against the Empyreans, who are executed when their psychic abilities are identified. She creates the robot Neutralizers that perform and automate these “ethical cleansings.” But Alice soon meets a friend who changes her perspective on the attack. A benevolent, peaceful activist who was friends with Dawn, Lawrence advocates for the rights of Empyreans. As Lawrence is persecuted for his peaceful activism and Alice witnesses the oppression of her government firsthand, the fabric of everything she fought for is unravelled.

Torn between the left and the right—somewhere in between—Alice’s coming-of-age story is about trying to find her place in a technocratic world where information and truth are distorted at every turn. Who she becomes in order to fight back against the altered truth is not the hero she expected.

330 pages, Paperback

Published March 9, 2020

About the author

Nathalie is a writer and creative based in Vancouver, BC. She is the founder of PilipinxPages, a bookstagram featuring Filipinx authors. She has written for or appeared in interviews and panels for the following publications and festivals: TFC, CBC, Cold Tea Collective, Filipino Fridays Podcast, Sampaguita Press, Stories with Sapphire Podcast, UBC's Games in Action Conference, Chopsticks Alley Pinoy, the LiterAsian Festival (2020), Marias at Sampaguitas, Ricepaper Magazine, and Gastrofork. She is also the creator of the podcast, Filipino Fairy Tales, Mythology and Folklore.

She’s released three fiction books that feature women in tech or gaming: Hasta Mañana, Alice’s Order, and See You Tomorrow.

In her film days, she produced a short film called The Weather Girl that represented International Women’s Day for the Women in Film and Television’s Vancouver chapter in 2013. She is currently working on a Filipino mythology inspired fantasy novel called Diyosa Mata.