the Codex of Viel: A Dystopian Novel Truth, Control, and Witness: 1

In a world where self-awareness has been weaponized into a control mechanism, one translator must choose between safety and truth.Tomas Rell is a cartographer who stumbles upon an ancient artifact in a valley of glass, a teaching that only reveals itself when you stop trying to control it. But when the Dominion conscripts him to translate it, they turn witness-consciousness into a confession engine, teaching children to report their parents in the name of self-awareness.Now Tomas must gather seven witnesses who can hold truth without gripping it, access a teaching that refuses to be owned, and discover that the real prison isn't the surveillance state-it's the internal tribunal that measures your worth by someone else's approval.The Codex of the Viel is a philosophical thriller about what happens when Love learns to walk through fear, when witness becomes weapon, and when the only way to preserve truth is to give it away before power can domesticate it.For readers who loved the consciousness exploration of Ted Chiang's Exhalation, the spiritual resistance of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, and the organizational insight of Patrick Lencioni, but wished they came in a story you couldn't put down.

Pagina's: 308, Paperback, The Change Capbility Press