When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mother raised me for profit. Buyers and sellers had other plans for me, but then I grew a mind of my own. This is my story, the story of how my brain ended up in this box

In the future, humans and androids desperately need to find a way to get along with each other, but they're failing miserably. Mired in war and environmental catastrophe, a new generation has to rise to the challenge. A hand-picked group of Future Leaders is sent to a special academy, a sort of Blade Runner High School. Its up to these young people learn to overcome their differences, to see past the great divide of their time, and usher in a new era of peace and humanoid cooperation. They're going to need all the luck they can get.