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Article X: Control Alt Delete
The year is 2020 in America. All sex that leads to procreation has been outlawed for five years, only allowed for one sanctioned 24 hours on April 11th. This day is known as The Urge or Article X. Such climate creates depression, ways to have sex without the government knowing and domestic terrorism from a group of women known as the Mydolls.
Walter, a married pharmacist in a small town in Minnesota, meets a more-than-meets-the-eye prostitute who claims she will change his life. In the span of just about three days, she certainly does that.
Sarah, Walter's wife, finds herself pregnant due to a questionable one night stand and needs help from an old friend who is a current member of the Mydolls to make sure no one finds out she had sex on an illegal day.
The three of them face the longest weekend of their lives, full of car chases, shootouts, superhuman feats, drugs, and meetings with many people in power who hold the secrets about the real reason the United States decided to forbid heterosexual sex.
Walter, a married pharmacist in a small town in Minnesota, meets a more-than-meets-the-eye prostitute who claims she will change his life. In the span of just about three days, she certainly does that.
Sarah, Walter's wife, finds herself pregnant due to a questionable one night stand and needs help from an old friend who is a current member of the Mydolls to make sure no one finds out she had sex on an illegal day.
The three of them face the longest weekend of their lives, full of car chases, shootouts, superhuman feats, drugs, and meetings with many people in power who hold the secrets about the real reason the United States decided to forbid heterosexual sex.
445 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 21, 2016
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July 29, 2018
Exceptional world-building, a compelling story, believable characters.
August 13, 2018
Culture and Government collide in Ryan Witt's 'Article X: Control Alt Delete'!
The novel, Article X: Control Alt Delete, takes us into a not-too-distance future where cyborg soldiers are authorized by our government to enforce a law that strips us of one of our most basic rights… enforced without mercy. The law, known as Article X, restricts all reproductive sexual intercourse to a single day of the year; the act conducted on any other day, with one’s spouse or not, is heavily enforced… with a punishment of death. The single annual day that sex is allowed has come to be known as the Urge. Fortunately, not all soldiers are created equal. The story follows one seemingly ordinary small-town man and one extraordinary woman whose adventures bring them into a fight to end Article X and restore society's human rights.
To most, the Article X law is perceived as a move by the far-right to effectively end abortion by all but ending sex, as well as suppressing sexual debauchery in the culture. However, the protagonists discover the truth, a purpose behind why the law was really created. Oblivious to its true purpose, the country celebrates the Urge annually as a national holiday, with many adopting a “make love, not war” anything-goes mentality when it comes to sexual freedom on the one day of the year it’s legal.
'Article X' blends science fiction, political drama, fantasy and suspense. This book is definitely not for children or young adults, as it details scenes of violence, as well as graphic sexual encounters. Heavy adult themes aside, a compelling plot and a good amount of humor carry the story along nicely. There were a couple of places in which I felt lost with regard to the timeline, where the story jumped from present day to the past, and back again. However, I'm basing this review on an early draft of the novel, so I didn't let that sway me too heavily.
Ryan Witt's first novel tackles some heavy topics by taking readers on a fascinating journey that explores questions about trust in government (and the things governments hide), the limiting of human rights, women's rights in particular, and whether humanity is worth saving from its own destruction. I recommend ‘Article X’ if you’re looking for an original story with strong main characters who play well off of one other, and if you’re not easily offended by content that at times shows the darker side of humanity.
The novel, Article X: Control Alt Delete, takes us into a not-too-distance future where cyborg soldiers are authorized by our government to enforce a law that strips us of one of our most basic rights… enforced without mercy. The law, known as Article X, restricts all reproductive sexual intercourse to a single day of the year; the act conducted on any other day, with one’s spouse or not, is heavily enforced… with a punishment of death. The single annual day that sex is allowed has come to be known as the Urge. Fortunately, not all soldiers are created equal. The story follows one seemingly ordinary small-town man and one extraordinary woman whose adventures bring them into a fight to end Article X and restore society's human rights.
To most, the Article X law is perceived as a move by the far-right to effectively end abortion by all but ending sex, as well as suppressing sexual debauchery in the culture. However, the protagonists discover the truth, a purpose behind why the law was really created. Oblivious to its true purpose, the country celebrates the Urge annually as a national holiday, with many adopting a “make love, not war” anything-goes mentality when it comes to sexual freedom on the one day of the year it’s legal.
'Article X' blends science fiction, political drama, fantasy and suspense. This book is definitely not for children or young adults, as it details scenes of violence, as well as graphic sexual encounters. Heavy adult themes aside, a compelling plot and a good amount of humor carry the story along nicely. There were a couple of places in which I felt lost with regard to the timeline, where the story jumped from present day to the past, and back again. However, I'm basing this review on an early draft of the novel, so I didn't let that sway me too heavily.
Ryan Witt's first novel tackles some heavy topics by taking readers on a fascinating journey that explores questions about trust in government (and the things governments hide), the limiting of human rights, women's rights in particular, and whether humanity is worth saving from its own destruction. I recommend ‘Article X’ if you’re looking for an original story with strong main characters who play well off of one other, and if you’re not easily offended by content that at times shows the darker side of humanity.
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