Products tagged with 'dystopian thriller'
Confidence Score: Spire City Archive File 823.9-AR
Spire City Archives (Book 1)
A government Algorithm scores every citizen's loyalty. What you read, who you talk to, and where you go all feed the number. Stay above the threshold, and life continues. Drop below it, and a team shows up before dawn. Three days later, you walk out empty. Compliant. Calibrated. No longer a problem. Derrick Grimetti has been on the enforcement side for twelve years. Liquidation Processing. He clears the apartments of people who stopped being people the moment their scores bottomed out. It's clean work if you don't look at the photographs. He looked. A list of names hidden in a dead teacher's evidence box. His brother's name is seventh on the page. One stolen document. One partner who notices everything, and a ticking clock, twelve days before the Algorithm flags Lawrence Grimetti for acquisition and erases everything. Confidence Score is dystopian fiction that hits close to the bone, a story about algorithmic control, the criminalization of knowledge, and two people inside the machine who decide the cost of compliance is higher than the cost of treason. This is the kind of book the Ministry would ban.
Confidence Score: Spire City Archive File 823.9-AR
A government Algorithm scores every citizen's loyalty. What you read, who you talk to, and where you go all feed the number. Stay above the threshold, and life continues. Drop below it, and a team shows up before dawn. Three days later, you walk out empty. Compliant. Calibrated. No longer a problem. Derrick Grimetti has been on the enforcement side for twelve years. Liquidation Processing. He clears the apartments of people who stopped being people the moment their scores bottomed out. It's clean work if you don't look at the photographs. He looked. A list of names hidden in a dead teacher's evidence box. His brother's name is seventh on the page. One stolen document. One partner who notices everything, and a ticking clock, twelve days before the Algorithm flags Lawrence Grimetti for acquisition and erases everything. Confidence Score is dystopian fiction that hits close to the bone, a story about algorithmic control, the criminalization of knowledge, and two people inside the machine who decide the cost of compliance is higher than the cost of treason. This is the kind of book the Ministry would ban.
Wilted Dahlia
The Grey Area (Book 2)
Reed and Dahila aren’t the only things creeping in the dark that Dr. Stintz left behind in his wake. Genetic engineering takes its toll. They will come to realize that the damage to their minds was minor compared to the rest of his subjects. Dahlia is a survivor of the horrific responsibility the world has placed on her. She's given a second chance at life by her husband Reed's sacrifice. She will do whatever it takes to fulfil her promise and find their son in the leftovers of a society on the brink of collapse. Hunters, scavengers, and the city's militia squabble over what's left of the land surrounding Harrion to survive. Every choice will take a piece of her while she tries desperately to hold on to her humanity. What would you give to piece your family back together?
Wilted Dahlia
Reed and Dahila aren’t the only things creeping in the dark that Dr. Stintz left behind in his wake. Genetic engineering takes its toll. They will come to realize that the damage to their minds was minor compared to the rest of his subjects. Dahlia is a survivor of the horrific responsibility the world has placed on her. She's given a second chance at life by her husband Reed's sacrifice. She will do whatever it takes to fulfil her promise and find their son in the leftovers of a society on the brink of collapse. Hunters, scavengers, and the city's militia squabble over what's left of the land surrounding Harrion to survive. Every choice will take a piece of her while she tries desperately to hold on to her humanity. What would you give to piece your family back together?