In an unnamed dystopia, citizens face dangerous reproductive rules Gremlin/getty images
THERE isn’t much world-building in Veronica Roth’s sci-fi retelling of Sophocles’s classic Greek tragedy Antigone. Then again, in Arch-Conspirator, there isn’t much world. A dusty dystopian city (Thebes in the original, but it isn’t clear where we are in the reboot) is all that remains after a thinly sketched environmental polycrisis has turned humanity into an endangered species.
Or, at least, that is what a reader surmises. The citizens don’t seem to know much about the arid …
