By playing the virtual online game ChemFactor, used to find new molecules and new configurations, she has saved much time for its clients during the past three years.
In order to stay under the radar, she has changed her virtual identity five times as her accomplishments are usually rewarded by computing power by the clients.
Due to her status, she devises a plan to gain a patent for the new material as an ordinary magnet and only reveals its secret afterwards.
[1] Russell Letson, writing in the Locus Magazine, states that the short story is "a very procedural account of how a determined and smart teenaged girl not only devises a breakthrough technology but figures out how to exploit it commercially – all the while navigating a setting that vividly outlines the vulnerabilities resulting from her gender, age, and refugee status.
"[3] Salik Shah, writing in the Reactor Magazine, can "imagine that this story could become a film along similar lines to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019, written by William Kamkwamba) or perhaps a storyline set in the larger world of a TV series based on Egan’s novel Zendegi (2010), also set in Iran.