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Manifesto: Future Fiction Extrapolated From an Ideology
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if we got exactly what we said we wanted?
In 2036, the Office of Births, Lives, and Transcendence issues its founding document:
Sexuality is innate. Gender is self-determined. Procreation is a service. History must be rewritten to reflect who we are now.
It sounds fair. Diverse. Inclusive.
This book asks what happens next.
Manifesto is 16 works of future fiction - dystopian, satirical, and deeply human - each extrapolating a single clause of that manifesto to its logical conclusion.
Inside you'll find:
Wherever Two or More - A home church meets in a living room with the guitars left in their cases, whisper-singing so the neighbours won't complain. Outside, bricks come through the window in the night.
The Standard - In the windowless Empathy Lab, three editors delete 10,000 years of history to make a Year 9 lesson plan clearer.
Maternity Shoot & The Bun and The Oven - When a baby becomes a product and a mother becomes an oven, what happens when the product decides to deliver itself on the side of a remote road?
The Bucket List - She was told not to look too closely in the bio-buckets. Then something moved.
Not An Exact Copy - A trans soldier volunteers his own cells to build an exact female clone for his leader, and discovers the body keeps its own records.
It's not a crime, but... - He gets two letters on the same day. One for saying That's a bloke online. One for someone photographing his daughter's school and his front door at 1:47am. Only one gets a visit from the police.
And nine more - from the $440M TrueMan Institute with its affirmation lighting and pronoun-sensitive call buttons, to the dog who misgenders, to the toaster that can no longer legally make toast.
From storyteller Steve Kelly, Manifesto is Black Mirror meets Orwell by way of small-town Australia. It is not about left versus right. It is about what happens when language is redefined, when compassion becomes compliance, and when ordinary people - mothers, fathers, nurses, cleaners, kids in a locker room - have to live inside an ideology that no longer has words for them.
For readers of dystopian satire, speculative fiction, and anyone who has ever wondered: In order to make yourself anew, do you really have to rewrite your past?
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