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Hidden People
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Apr 24 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the shimmering glass city of Oura, perfection is the only currency. Managed by the Great Algorithm, every life is measured, every heartbeat is quantified, and every person is expected to be a perfect gear in a global machine. But when the morning of the Global Productivity Review arrives, a single red circle on a screen changes everything for Lior.
Labeled Obsolete, Lior is stripped of his home, his rights, and his dignity. His crime? He is a gardener who prefers the touch of soil to the precision of a robot. He is a man with a loud heart and a habit of daydreaming in a world that only values output.
Exiled to the desolate Quiet Zones, Lior finds he is not alone. He meets a community of the unwanted: Silas, a violinist whose music is considered a distraction; Amara, a teacher whose history lessons are deemed irrelevant; and Zoya, a technician who has seen the soul-crushing truth behind the city's silver walls. Together, they discover that the Great Algorithm has made a fatal calculation error: it has mistaken efficiency for worth.
As the corporate dystopia prepares to purge the inefficient forever, Lior and his band of Hidden People must embark on a cinematic journey back to the heart of the system. Armed only with a handful of ancient seeds and the power of human memory, they must ignite a revolution to prove that life is more than a data point.
Hidden People is a hauntingly beautiful and immersive tale of resistance and hope. It is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a ghost in a digital world-a powerful reminder that the most useless parts of us are often the very things that make us human. In a world of cold logic, can a single melody and a growing garden dismantle a global empire?
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