As a result of the Lower City being infinitely indebted to the Upper City super corporations, the middle class has been eliminated altogether. Society has developed into a rigid class system where the Upper City lives in the height of luxury while the Lower City lives in utter poverty and rapidly accrue debt to pay for necessary health and technological services. The book is set in a distant post-cataclysmic future where civilization has evolved its technology so rapidly through unrestricted capitalism to bring about a world where nearly every conceivable service can be purchased. London drew inspiration for Proxy from the 1987 book The Whipping Boy, "where the rich pay for the poor to take their punishments." He states that the novel applies and integrates observations on society regarding debt, corporations, capitalism, progress in technology, social class, and human morality. The novel utilizes a third-person, subjective narration structure that alternates between Knox Brindle and Sydney Carton. A sequel to the novel has been released in 2014, Guardian. The novel, which was released on June 18, 2013, features a gay adolescent as its action-hero protagonist. Proxy is a 2013 sci-fi, dystopian young adult novel by Alex London.
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