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Gullerville: The Dark New World: A Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Novella
In the future a new world exists where humans live in isolated, cell-like worlds ... completely alone.
Knowing nothing of personal contact, and with no experience of 'living with others', George Winstanley starts to question what the politicians and scientists have always told Gullervillians is sacrosanct - that to live with others is impossible, that people are and have always lived in separation and privacy in the world.
Man is not thought of as a 'social animal' nor as having to live in a state of community in Gullerville. Far from it.
There is no religion in Gullerville, only the sacred 'Duration' and the laws of duration govern the lives of its citizens. In Gullerville, time does not exist, only duration exists. Total duration repeats itself over and over again. There are no clocks, no watches, nor any other form of time devices in Gullerville - there are only individual duration meters.
Gullervillians know nothing of our past, present or future. Their 'moments of duration' are all they have experienced and all they ever will.
George Winstanley will come to question these values. A chance to escape from Gullerville with Serle, his Duration Warden, opens up for him and together they journey through the 'whiteness' where the dreaded whiteness salvagers lie in wait.
Winstanley will find out that a world once existed that was very different to Gullerville, where the social rules, written in stone in his world, were very a place where men once lived together in communities and in time.
Knowing nothing of personal contact, and with no experience of 'living with others', George Winstanley starts to question what the politicians and scientists have always told Gullervillians is sacrosanct - that to live with others is impossible, that people are and have always lived in separation and privacy in the world.
Man is not thought of as a 'social animal' nor as having to live in a state of community in Gullerville. Far from it.
There is no religion in Gullerville, only the sacred 'Duration' and the laws of duration govern the lives of its citizens. In Gullerville, time does not exist, only duration exists. Total duration repeats itself over and over again. There are no clocks, no watches, nor any other form of time devices in Gullerville - there are only individual duration meters.
Gullervillians know nothing of our past, present or future. Their 'moments of duration' are all they have experienced and all they ever will.
George Winstanley will come to question these values. A chance to escape from Gullerville with Serle, his Duration Warden, opens up for him and together they journey through the 'whiteness' where the dreaded whiteness salvagers lie in wait.
Winstanley will find out that a world once existed that was very different to Gullerville, where the social rules, written in stone in his world, were very a place where men once lived together in communities and in time.
174 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 29, 2016
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