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Licence To Die
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world where death is a privilege, any hope of escape feels like a distant dream.
London 2066-a city gasping for survival under the crushing weight of climate catastrophe. The once-proud capital teeters on collapse, its people shackled by the iron grip of His Majesty's Government.
Through neural quantum-chip implants, every citizen is bound to the Governing-Al-a god-like entity dictating purpose, enforcing compliance, and denying easy death to those desperately seeking it.
In this climate-cursed dystopia, suicide is legal, but not without conditions. A rare and coveted Licence to Die stands between those yearning for release and their freedom to leave. Without a Licence, Britain's super-advanced AI wields the extraordinary computing power vested in it to extinguish escape.
For George Hebrides-a London lad who no longer has any hope for the crumbling world-the Licence is his only chance at peace. As he navigates Britain's labyrinthine process to obtain one, he finds himself flung into surreal trials.
But what begins as his quest for death unravels into something far more profound-a harrowing odyssey of dark revelations, dangerous possibilities, and questions that could redesign the fabric of human existence.
In a society where suicide is bureaucratised, George's search for the end unveils truths that challenge everything he thought he knew-about life, death, and his place in the universe.
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