Post-Britannia

by J.M. Duke, T.C. Duke

William King is as out of control as the world he lives in. While a hulking, menacing government bureaucracy consolidates its grip on the general populace, stripping rights and twisting bodies and minds, with its attempts to tighten control ever increasing toward attaining utter dominance, Billy's fracturing mind and feral body scrabble for hope and freedom. Abandoned by father and by brother, assailed by the insanity of his frail yet despotic mother and the dog-eat-dog society she reflects, Billy must choose between starvation in the gutter or submission to military might and pray that some part of him survives. As friends die and dreams crumble, will Billy destroy the corporatist war machine that has invaded and reshaped him from the inside out or be consumed by it?

182 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2016

About the author

Janice Duke is an illustrator and author based in Scotland. She is the author of the books "Hawk Divine" and "Post-Britannia". She is primarily interested in art and philosophy based topics, strongly influenced by a master’s degree in philosophy with a focus on aesthetics and environmental ethics. Nature, mythology, psychology and the exploration of consciousness inspire and inform her work.

Reviews

[Bridget Cameron · Rating 4 out of 5]

A dystopian Britain, in which the 'old world' is crumbling away, and a broken system perpetuates atrocities; where filth, crime, gang warfare, addiction and poverty are mainstream, and abject poverty lives next to extreme opulence, where virtual state war games are free. The governments response to this decay is to increase social control methodologies and those most vulnerable are treated like cattle, numbered, prodded, used and abused by the government 'controllers' who believe that they can create order out of chaos, without even knowing themselves! It is a world where people eat artificial 'vat meat', where the 'employment deficit' are given no choices, but to be overworked and underpaid, tortured and 'mind controlled', where a forced genetic programme and medicated water forces people to be 'controllable' with fake happiness and an inability to adjust to change, in the name of the status quo perpetuation programme. Yet, Billy has other plans...