What is a Punk City?

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 The World Ender is the first book in a series titled 'Punk City'.

Urban dictionary calls it - an insult describing the place in a jail that's under police protective custody or simply a prisoner under their protection.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=punk%20City

If we analyze this term a little, we begin to see an alternate definition for a 'Punk'. Here, we could interpret one use of the word is to describe the police. This 'City' is under the control of 'Punks'.

Perhaps, Punk is intended to describe the prisoner who ran to the protection of the police, as in the phrase Punk-ass-bitch.

In either case, whether it's describing police or prisoner, this term doesn't connote the anti-government, anti-establishment rebel that we associate with the term 'Punk', as in Punk-Rocker.

In the rest of this science fiction series, I want to explore the interpretations of this phrase. I think I've already set the tone with the first book, that these domes are not good places. The reason for their existence came from deceit.  Time will tell if anything good can actually come from this lie.

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