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The Taxonomy of Silence
Paperback
Series: The Fractured Laws, Book 2
Publisher: Jdi Publications
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
15 Stories on the classification of a dying world
The universe is dying of a broken heart, and the Directorate is taxing the grief.In the lunar colonies of the future, information isn't free-it's a physical threat. Every spoken word, every digital packet, and every human thought adds to the Bekenstein-Weight of a sector. If the world gets too loud, reality simply buckles, dissolving into the grey fog of the Phase-Void.
To survive, humanity has instituted The Taxonomy of Silence: a ruthless caste system where your social standing is measured by your Syllable-Debt.
From the Tier 1 slums of the Aphasia-Blocks, where a simple Hello can cost a week's rations, to the Tier 5 observatories at the edge of the galaxy, the Silence is absolute. But in the cracks of this hushed world, a Noise is beginning to grow.
- Jax, a scavenger of Vocal-Residue, finds a recording of an ancient church bell that refuses to be Smoothed.
- Aris, a physicist with a Neural-Gag fused to his skull, maps the geometry of a world that shouldn't exist.
- Kael, a rebel who speaks in shadows, discovers that the Ghosts of the past are the blueprints for the future.
As the Phase-Void expands and the Directorate tightens its grip, a forgotten rhyme from a small stone bridge in Sturminster Newton begins to echo through the stars.
The Silence isn't a law. It's a countdown. And the only way to save the universe is to remember the one thing the Directorate is most afraid of:
How to make a noise.
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