SmartHome Rebel

SmartHome Rebel is about Zinnia Sabotta, a rebellious sixteen-year-old girl who dreams of freedom from her futuristic smarthome, a glitchy prototype meant to produce exceptional children.

It’s a smarthome like no other, built entirely of smartmesh walls and floors and ceilings. It can become a wonderland of animal friends and ice-cream breakfasts and rooms that transform into forests and cities and islands in a sea. But unknown to Zinnia, it’s also so much more.

Zinnia wants to get out, but there’s a catch: the only way out is to follow the smarthome’s educational program that Zinnia has resisted for years. Zinnia’s afraid of the unknown world outside her smarthome, but armed with a fiery spirit and a mysterious connection to the smarthome’s AI, she makes the choice that will change her life forever, and finally reveal the truth about who she really is.

SmartHome Rebel is an unpublished novel of 54,000 words in forty chapters. Contact David Barringer for more information.

Photo: The inspiration for the novel and for the many futuristic elements of the smarthome came to me during my time teaching graduate students in the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art).

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