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Ordinis
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Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Adam K Freeland
Published: Aug 30 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Long ago, a man and a woman found love. From that love, they conceived a child. But before the child could be born, the law changed.
Natural birth was forbidden. From that day forward, the citizens of the Mark could no longer choose for themselves whether to have children. They were required to petition the Venture for an Order, requiring official permission to create a family. The man was forced to leave the woman behind, and a private act of love became a crime against the state.
When a government claims authority over birth, every family becomes a political question.
Now Mark Twelve stands on the brink of collapse. Ahra Fluoresce competes at a school for the elite led by Byblos. Ansin Boemn is fighting enemies he cannot see. His campaign to restore the failing energy grid was meant to secure the Mark's future, but when it backfires in the most unexpected ways, the war he once waged against the neighboring sister Mark turns inward-against the people of Mark Twelve itself.
Order Is Violence is a sweeping work of dystopian science fiction and political suspense about reproductive control, institutional power, surveillance, technological dependence, and the dangerous distance between public virtue and private ambition. In Mark Twelve, the language of law conceals the machinery of coercion. Bureaucracy reaches into the most intimate parts of human life. Political leaders speak of stability while ordinary citizens pay its imbalanced price.
The question is no longer whether the system works. The question is whom it was designed to serve.
As Mark Twelve's energy crisis deepens, its political order begins to expose its true character. Restoration becomes an an exercise in exerting control. Security becomes surveillance. The same institutions created to preserve civilization begin preferring against it, deciding which histories may be remembered and which people are the most expendable.
At the center of the novel is a struggle over human autonomy. Who has the right to create life? Who owns a person's memories, choices, and private thoughts? Can consent exist when the safest path is coerced?
Blending political thriller, science fiction, dystopian drama, and philosophical speculation, Order Is Violence explores authoritarianism not merely as a form of government, but as a condition that enters families, friendships, education, technology, memory, and identity. It examines the moral cost of engineered societies, the seduction of efficiency, the fragility of privacy, and the ease with which fear can turn neighbors into informants and public servants into instruments of repression.
Mark Twelve was designed to guarantee the future. But peace without freedom is only silence. And a future decided by one belongs to no one. Order is violence.
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