Sofia and the Utopia Machine Condition:Good Portia's wit and disguise as

Portia's wit and disguise as a legal expert drive a dramatic courtroom resolution

from crinolines to toilets

from a retiree downgrading from the terrace house where he raised his family to a fantastical history of a local neighbourhood

until the war transforms her life

with the help of a mysterious group of rebels

Sofia and the Utopia Machine Condition:Good Portia's wit and disguise asShortlisted for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. A bold and fantastical work that posits a new cosmology within which a science fictional vision of Singapore is rendered in dystopian terms. Its a work that would sit perfectly on any Young Adult speculative fiction shelf, with its fast paced and childlike sense of adventure. Sofia's father has been missing for seven years, and her controlling mother doesn't understand her. She attends a good