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The Ash and the Roots: The City That Refused a Crown
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ISBN13: 9798243159760
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Consent belongs on page one-or nothing works. In the humane, hopeful finale of Arthur Blackwood's trilogy, a city learns to turn slogans into infrastructure: blackouts without bosses, exams without cameras, hospitals without loyalty lanes, borders without profiles, votes without apps-and finally, teeth that fund rooms instead of headlines. A librarian with a stamp, a lawyer with teeth, an engineer with confetti, a steward with chalk, a reporter who films horizons, and a shopkeeper who believes in 0.00 refuse to become products and make decency the default.
As storms arrive branded and standards try to patent trust, ordinary people hold the line with paper, kettles, honest queues, and laws you can tape to windows. Near-future civic fiction for readers who want competence over spectacle and endings that leave the door on the latch.
You'll love this if you enjoy: hopepunk and optimistic social SF; community resilience versus seamless control; found-citizens stories and witty policy-in-action; near-future tech that behaves like furniture (not a boss).
This is the third novel of The Ash and the Roots trilogy.
You'll love this if you enjoy: hopepunk and optimistic social SF; community resilience versus seamless control; found-citizens stories and witty policy-in-action; near-future tech that behaves like furniture (not a boss).
This is the third novel of The Ash and the Roots trilogy.
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