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Scob Nation
Special Limited Time Pre-Publication Discounted eBook price!The Climate Overman wants to reprogram your morality.
In a near-future America fractured by climate extremism, Mateo Anaya has one to find his son after a global cyber-event. But the country he once knew has become unrecognizable, a totalitarian state where the crusade to save the planet is more terrifying than the disaster itself.
Welcome to Scob Nation, where body-modified zealots called Flagellantes patrol the streets with sewn nostrils and glowing LED brows, where grotesque bio-engineered “stoinks” roam a CO₂-monitored wasteland, and where color-coded U-discs embedded in citizens’ temples track every action, thought, and moral failing. This is a world of climate morality scores, where Orwellian surveillance meets Huxleyan sedation, and the pursuit of climate justice has devolved into moral reprogramming.
Mateo is no hero, just a cynical father on a nightmare road trip across a shattered nation. With each desperate mile, he faces new distortions of kangaroo climate courts dispensing instant justice, Jim Crow-idors enforcing social purity, and factions whose righteousness has rotted into hypocrisy.
At the center of it all stands The Climate Overman—Blonden Viate—architect of the Scob Nation prison camps and Probitas reprogramming centers. Viate has merged moral engineering with machine learning, enlisting Big Tech to imprison “climate offenders” and recode their consciences through neural modification. The outcome is a nation of obedient sycophants, ruled by those who claim moral perfection and control the code that defines it.
Yet amid the darkness, Mateo finds defiance. With Houston, Brock, and Lucien, he discovers that humanity still flickers, even in a nation rebuilt on paranoia and fear.
For readers who devoured Blake Crouch's Recursion, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Scob Nation delivers a breakneck techno-thriller wrapped in savage social satire. With the propulsive pacing of Crouch, the prescient bio-horror of Atwood, and the cynical corporate absurdism of Stephenson, this manuscript marries high-concept plotting with the resonant themes of 1984 and Brave New World.
It asks a critical question in today’s what are we willing to give up to pursue climate justice?
Part dystopian thriller, part cautionary tale about humanity's hubris, Scob Nation is a visceral, unrelenting journey through a future that feels disturbingly within reach, a story with the commercial appeal of a blockbuster and the literary weight of a modern classic. This is speculative fiction for our urgent, unforgettable, and primed for both bestseller lists and the screen.
In a near-future America fractured by climate extremism, Mateo Anaya has one to find his son after a global cyber-event. But the country he once knew has become unrecognizable, a totalitarian state where the crusade to save the planet is more terrifying than the disaster itself.
Welcome to Scob Nation, where body-modified zealots called Flagellantes patrol the streets with sewn nostrils and glowing LED brows, where grotesque bio-engineered “stoinks” roam a CO₂-monitored wasteland, and where color-coded U-discs embedded in citizens’ temples track every action, thought, and moral failing. This is a world of climate morality scores, where Orwellian surveillance meets Huxleyan sedation, and the pursuit of climate justice has devolved into moral reprogramming.
Mateo is no hero, just a cynical father on a nightmare road trip across a shattered nation. With each desperate mile, he faces new distortions of kangaroo climate courts dispensing instant justice, Jim Crow-idors enforcing social purity, and factions whose righteousness has rotted into hypocrisy.
At the center of it all stands The Climate Overman—Blonden Viate—architect of the Scob Nation prison camps and Probitas reprogramming centers. Viate has merged moral engineering with machine learning, enlisting Big Tech to imprison “climate offenders” and recode their consciences through neural modification. The outcome is a nation of obedient sycophants, ruled by those who claim moral perfection and control the code that defines it.
Yet amid the darkness, Mateo finds defiance. With Houston, Brock, and Lucien, he discovers that humanity still flickers, even in a nation rebuilt on paranoia and fear.
For readers who devoured Blake Crouch's Recursion, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Scob Nation delivers a breakneck techno-thriller wrapped in savage social satire. With the propulsive pacing of Crouch, the prescient bio-horror of Atwood, and the cynical corporate absurdism of Stephenson, this manuscript marries high-concept plotting with the resonant themes of 1984 and Brave New World.
It asks a critical question in today’s what are we willing to give up to pursue climate justice?
Part dystopian thriller, part cautionary tale about humanity's hubris, Scob Nation is a visceral, unrelenting journey through a future that feels disturbingly within reach, a story with the commercial appeal of a blockbuster and the literary weight of a modern classic. This is speculative fiction for our urgent, unforgettable, and primed for both bestseller lists and the screen.
250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 14, 2025
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December 20, 2025
I’m sorry to say this, but Scob Nation was an extremely clunky read. The story felt all over the place. so much so that at times I honestly wondered if I was reading from a misprinted copy. The plot jumped around, characters and motivations blurred together, and what could have been a sharp narrative dissolved into confusion.The only reason I’m giving it two stars is because the core premise; the climate crisis angle and the idea of extremist activists had real potential. Unfortunately, that’s about all it had going for it. The execution was messy, the pacing uneven, and following along became more of a chore than an escape.I kept reading, hoping it would eventually click or redeem itself, but it never did. I really wanted to enjoy Scob Nation, but in the end, it just left me disappointed.
December 13, 2025
This book is unredeemable. Anti-science and anti-intellectuals. It is poorly written.
December 15, 2025
A story set in the future that tells us don't give them too much information. It can be gripping as you wonder what Mateo Anaya is going to do now.
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