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Blood & Loot: Pardon Pending

Blood & Loot: Pardon Pending

Giannelli, Craig

Paperback

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798165946615
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He posted one meme. Forty-seven thousand people laughed. The state called it evidence

Theo De'Marsh was a software engineer in Walthamstow with two hundred followers and a habit of writing everything down. Then he shared a cartoon of a cat and a sloth, and a magistrate in a cardigan read out the number of laughing reactions twice. The second time, she read it more slowly, in case it had changed.

Now he wakes up in an infirmary on a barren planet, in a body that's partly new, with no memory of how he died. The nurse in pink cat ears is delighted to see him. His four followers are mostly angry.

Welcome to Blood & Loot, sixty-three years on air and still the biggest show on Earth. Every morning a cheerful loudspeaker calls the contestants to the arena. Every match, the Baron descends from the sky in smoke and lasers to remind them of the rule everyone remembers: only one may win. Five minutes to survive the Infected. Seven before the sky opens. And millions of viewers back home, typing whatever comes into their heads.

Off the clock, the city is worse. Breakfast tables are seated by follower count. HexKitten, the most adorable pop group in history, are everywhere, and nobody has ever seen them scar. The PA reminds everyone that privacy is a feeling, not a place. And a man who writes everything down starts to notice that the rules don't say what everybody thinks they say.

Pardons are possible. Patience is mandatory.

Blood & Loot: Pardon Pending is a savagely funny, deeply uncomfortable satire of fame, attention and the live-streamed future. It's for adult readers who like their dystopias absurd, their chat sections stupid, and their endings left open.

Contains violence, state execution, disease, strong language and sexual content.

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