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Tales from the Dystopian Future
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ISBN13: 9798315180906
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 22 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 22 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Tales from the Dystopian Future combines the novellas Swimming at the Precipice and Delusions of Euphoria. Tales features mature themes and language Swimming at the Precipice: In the year 2235, one hundred percent of the population are hooked on the drug Utopia. The drug keeps citizens in an altered state, locked away behind closed doors, wired up to machines - no longer knowing what is reality and what is fiction. No-one knows how long it has been this way, most of the world is now run though automation and AI, an artificial entity overlooks the remnants of humanity. The elite fled the Earth, feeding from the vegetative state humanity now finds itself in. A man only known as Fielder may be the key to saving humanity. In 2170, scientist Francesca Mukushina works for the Atlas Corporation, a global corporation who oversee space travel and research - but is there more to them that meets the eye? Will she be able to save her family from a potential devastating event? Fielder is at war with his mind, tormented and exhausted, but not all is lost, as freedom was prophesied. Will he be the key in freeing humanity from its slavery? Francesca finds herself in a desperate struggle to save her family. Swimming at the Precipice is told from two perspectives, one in the present, one in the past. Join them both in a mind-bending science fiction tale. Delusions of Euphoria: 2085. The world is in recovery from an almost apocalyptic event - economic and environmental pressures subdue the population who are not in the lucky 5%. The city is Euphoria, a city with an unending growth of poverty and desperation. For two detectives, they are about to discover a killer with nothing to lose is willing to fight back against the wealthy elite.
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