Characters
This company controls the feed and is the dominant corporation in the novel.
What is FeedTech or "The Corporations"?
This major event happens to Titus and his friends on the moon.
What is the hacker attacking them?
This technology is implanted in most citizens' brains and connects them to a vast corporate network.
What is the feed?
Citizens with the feed experience this instead of dreams.
What are personalized advertisements?
This word is typically used to address a male friend.
What is "unit"?
This character is the narrator and has a complicated relationship with the feed.
Who is Titus?
The word 'mal' in the novel refers to this kind of event affecting the feed.
What is malfunctioning?
The lesions spreading across people's bodies are treated as this by feed-driven pop culture.
What is a fashion trend?
Violet's father is defined by this profession, which contrasts with the anti-intellectual feed culture.
What is a college professor?
"Rizz" is a modern term for this word from the book.
What is "skeeze"?
This character ends up losing bodily function due to the hacker's attack.
Who is Violet?
This is what Titus and his friends do at the end of the novel that shows nothing has changed for them.
What is continue on as normal or continue consuming?
This AI-like woman doesn't help Violet at all when she calls for her after her dreams.
Who is Nina?
Violet's attempt to confuse the feed by browsing random products represents this kind of resistance.
What is rejecting the feed creating a profile for her?
One might use this term to describe something as boring.
What is "null"?
Who is Link?
This is what Titus does after visiting Violet and her father in a state of panic.
What is buys many pairs of pants?
George Washington fighting in World War II is an example of this type of information from the Feed.
What is misinformation?
What are the corporations?
This slang word is often used in the book to describe something as cool.
What is "brag"?
This character does not have the feed implanted and is seen as an outsider.
Who is Violet's father?
This is what Quendy gets to get Link's attention even though he's dating Calista.
What is multiple lesions?
The feed replaced this older technology that once served a similar purpose — connecting people to information and each other.
What is the internet/phones/computers?
At the end of the novel, Titus does this to Violet as she lies brain-dead, revealing his emotional state.
What is tells her news/recite feed content?
FeedTech refuses to fix Violet's feed for this reason.
What is she is not a profitable consumer?