The Curators of Bliss: Protocol: Common Sense

The wolves roam free. The law still exists. Invoking it means admitting fear. In Oren, fear has a name: Wolvophobia. A diagnosis. A blacklist. A life erased. The other 98% do not fear the wolves. They cannot. Every morning the Nutrient Primer. Every encounter, the Blissful wristband delivers warmth instead of dread. The system calls it Integration - the highest civic act. The voluntary return of what was taken. Ethan helped build the system. He has never taken the drug. From the 43rd floor he watches the city run exactly as it was designed. His device is his own - disconnected from the towers, recalibrated to hurt. Pain is the only instrument he trusts not to lie. Someone has noticed. A dystopian literary novel about who decides what humanity deserves to feel - and what it costs when the answer is wrong.

Pagina's: 256, Paperback, Independently published