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The test decides everything. A life of hardship, or prosperity? A life we know, or a life we dream about? Empire tells the story of a young man growing up in a residential Block - a self-sustaining community controlled and constrained by higher powers. Unwilling to accept the harsh life fate appears to have in store for him, he concocts a plan to impress his examiners, to prove he is fit for higher things. The result is everything that he has dreamed of, and more. But, as they say, 'in dreams begin responsibilities'.

Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participants--as potential military recruits and organizers for...