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Echoes of rebellion
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: S.L.Payne
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 452
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
THE WORLD BENEATH SILENCE
By S. L. Payne
Silence is Safety. Emotion is Anarchy. Obedience is Peace.
In the clinical, chrome-and-glass towers of the Central Core, humanity's soul has been scrubbed clean. Subdermal neural implants ensure absolute order-blanketing thought, scraping away dreams, and erasing dangerous flaws like grief, fear, and love.
Citizen 512-N, known to the system only as a precise and silent worker, has never questioned the Collective. Until the night a stray thread of music slips past her filters, cracking something open in her chest. For the first time in her life, she sheds a single tear-a Class-four emotional deviation caught by a city drone.
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