Solidity is a play-with-the-rules story. People, and some things, all of a sudden do not persist when they are not observed. They get swapped for other, sort of similar people and things. So all of a sudden you're in a somewhat different house, with similar but not related people. So the story has two tracks--the social handling, and the "scientific" handling. Our protagonist (a boy named Omar) keeps his cool and tries to start sorting things out. Most others do too, working out a way to live. There is a Solidity manifesto that people figure out how to persist. More magical than Greg Egan usually gets, this could be a Seanan McGuire story.
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