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Free Planet
Custodian
A group of Oxford University's finest minds, the eponymous Custodians, offer mankind a technological 'get out of jail free card' enabling them to slip from under the yoke of Corporate Slavery to THE INDUSTRY.
Radical elements within the student body engage themselves in the Patent Wars and start a TV show called Natural Lottery that broadcasts to the global Evertainment System, every night, 7-9 p.m., all channels, full spectrum dominance.
You are taken through a physical relocation of your corporate arm of The Industry from Dusseldorf to Oxford. You are 'made redundant' in the most spectacular public fashion and your world starts to (literally) crumble, or pixellate, around you. But there's light at the end of the tunnel of death.
Radical elements within the student body engage themselves in the Patent Wars and start a TV show called Natural Lottery that broadcasts to the global Evertainment System, every night, 7-9 p.m., all channels, full spectrum dominance.
You are taken through a physical relocation of your corporate arm of The Industry from Dusseldorf to Oxford. You are 'made redundant' in the most spectacular public fashion and your world starts to (literally) crumble, or pixellate, around you. But there's light at the end of the tunnel of death.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 14, 2013
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About the author
Hertzan Chimera
58 books71 followers2004: The Fountains Institute (early) novels.
2008: Bukkakeworld and Planet of the Owls novels.
2011: Yoroppa and View from a Stolen Window novels.
2015: Free Planet and War World novels.
2020: Last of the Cathedra novel.
2008: Bukkakeworld and Planet of the Owls novels.
2011: Yoroppa and View from a Stolen Window novels.
2015: Free Planet and War World novels.
2020: Last of the Cathedra novel.
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August 7, 2013
Do right by your free planet. War, religion, and of course, debt & profit... they are holding us back... what are you waiting for?
Mike Philbin is back with another anti-corporate tale, another novel where he immerses you, the reader, into the book as a character. And he's getting good it. This is likely his strongest work to date. His dystopian near-future seems so extreme at times, so odd, and so far away. And yet when you realize he's blending non-fiction (aka "The Truth") in with the fiction, you begin to realize just how near we are to losing our planet. He offers an unique presentation of his ideas that doesn't have boring economics theory, generic propaganda, or political lies.
Oh, and William S Burroughs again. Philbin again is reminiscent of Burroughs without it ever seeming like he's trying to be like Burroughs.
Mike Philbin is back with another anti-corporate tale, another novel where he immerses you, the reader, into the book as a character. And he's getting good it. This is likely his strongest work to date. His dystopian near-future seems so extreme at times, so odd, and so far away. And yet when you realize he's blending non-fiction (aka "The Truth") in with the fiction, you begin to realize just how near we are to losing our planet. He offers an unique presentation of his ideas that doesn't have boring economics theory, generic propaganda, or political lies.
Oh, and William S Burroughs again. Philbin again is reminiscent of Burroughs without it ever seeming like he's trying to be like Burroughs.
September 20, 2014
you know, maybe this is a FREE PLANET, and we've all missed 'the most obvious part' of our history?
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