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The Consent of Shadows
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Semoniff Publishing
Published: Apr 23 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Finalist, 2025 International Book Awards (Fiction: Novella)
A haunting dystopia some readers have called the new 1984.
You are safest when you forget.
In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn't restricted; it's redefined.
Jack Aldren was a loyal bureaucrat until the cracks appeared.
And Eva, a woman who remembers too much in a world built to forget.
Together, they uncover something colder than surveillance itself:
Even rebellion may be part of the design.
As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.
The Consent of Shadows is not an easy read, and it isn't meant to be.
It is a cerebral and quietly shattering dystopian novella for readers of 1984, Brave New World, and Black Mirror.
It is a meditation on memory, control, and the final refuge of free will: the refusal to comply.
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