One Level Down is a novella published as a trade paperback, the first adult book by Mary G. Thompson - though she's published several books for younger readers, and a sheaf of adult short fiction in magazines. It's from Tachyon, officially publishing on April 1st, but I have a final book, so you might just be able to get it early.
It's set in a simulated world, focused on Ella, who is five. She has been five for fifty-eight years, and seems to be one of the few survivors of her "family," all subject to the increasingly capricious whims of "Daddy." But a Technician comes from the world above every sixty years, and that time is approaching - so I think Ella is scheming of how to get out from under "Daddy's" thumb, or possibly blow up this fake world entirely.
(Anyone else getting a "Dr. Braun from Fallout 3" vibe here? No? Just me?)
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