The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

A dystopian what if that deals with an Indian man who comes up with a computer and social order which treats every person in the world as a shareholder and everything you do raises or lowers those shares. There is a board that heads up the new world order and an algorithm that decides the value or payment of your actions. For a while King Rao and his wife revel in their new kingdom and are busy creating new products but then they split and King Rao disappears. He lives away from the mainland off Seattle on a small island with his daughter Athena who has never known anyone else and has been given all of her father's memories to teach her. Athena loves her dad and is happy on the island until she has questions he can't answer. She leaves and joins a group known as the Exes who have fled the system and live on Bainbridge Island where they live unhampered by the rules and algorithm of the Coconut. Athena knows her father's version of what happened and now she will see a different side of the same truth and come full circle. The writing style and new social order reminded me of STATION ELEVEN. The idea of biotechnology and an algorithm deciding everything seemed very close to real life and there were enough characters that may or may not remind you of some tech pioneers. Other themes that play a big role is the importance of family and that we humans have ignored climate changes for so long that we are past the point of fixing anything. There is much to think about in this book and I think it will appeal to tech supporters and luddites alike for different reasons.  4 stars