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2084
In the mid 2040s the world narrowly avoided an apocalyptic disaster due to the political incompetency of President Spencer. At a special summit, national leaders and the heads of the world’s largest companies unite in agreeing a new way forward. A new order is created and managed by 256 hyper-intelligent AIs overseen by a highly structured Government composed of the intellectual elite of humanity. Forty years on, the system is riddled with corruption, deceit and political back-stabbing that has resulted in dire suppression of the masses.
In the year of 2084, twenty-five years old David Churchill, a gifted genius, naively enters the Ministry to begin his journey through the seedy and corrupted power-house of governance. David soon discovers that nothing is as he thought. Due to his natural flair for creative ideas and his good looks, David becomes a pawn in the games of the rich and powerful obsessed with greed and sexual gratification, only to discover that something far more dangerous and sinister is brewing, something that could lead to the extinction of humanity. He is reunited with his first love, Juli, and finds himself thrown into a maelstrom of political and commercial intrigue where no one is safe from an unknown enemy within.
In the year of 2084, twenty-five years old David Churchill, a gifted genius, naively enters the Ministry to begin his journey through the seedy and corrupted power-house of governance. David soon discovers that nothing is as he thought. Due to his natural flair for creative ideas and his good looks, David becomes a pawn in the games of the rich and powerful obsessed with greed and sexual gratification, only to discover that something far more dangerous and sinister is brewing, something that could lead to the extinction of humanity. He is reunited with his first love, Juli, and finds himself thrown into a maelstrom of political and commercial intrigue where no one is safe from an unknown enemy within.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2018
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April 26, 2018
Readers are taken into a future, that in all reality hasn't changed much. Physically things are different, but deep down many things are the same. David Churchill is going to find out the hard way that the new world he finds himself in is full of corruption. He finds some good things but his journey is going to take him on a trip into what is going on behind the scenes and maybe why new technologies may not be as great as everyone first thought. I have read several books by this author, mostly short story collections, and can say with all certainty, that Darla Hogan is an amazing author with compelling stories to tell.
July 19, 2018
Set in an a future that in many ways is all too plausible, David Churchill is about to take the test that determines his future life like everyone else his age. Everybody's present and future is controlled by the all powerful Ministries to the betterment of all mankind. Or so everyone is told.
Following his selection for work in one of the Ministries David very soon finds out the truth. The wider populace are controlled by fear, propaganda and lies. The workers in the Ministry are controlled by greed, power and lust. He soon learns that the whole system is corrupt, rotten to the core, despite the all-powerful and dispassionate AIs that are supposed to only benefit mankind. But as one man there is little he can do, and certainly nobody he can trust. But there are plenty who want to use him as a weapon is their political infighting and power battles.
Clearly a more technological update on 1984, Hogan tackles this grim subject matter from the human perspectives of David and his childhood friend Juli, who is also pulled into the dark world of the power and corruption. Like peeling a rotten onion, layer after layer is removed, finally revealing the rotten heart. Along the way there are some huge plot twists, shocking events and reveals that completely change how the reader understands this future vision. The ending, which it comes, is certainly cataclysmic.
As with the best science fiction, this casts a light on the world we live in with certain current events clearly used as a basis for how Hogan constructed his dystopia. Sometimes the subtext isn't as subtle as it could be, but there is no denying the chilling warning it delivers.
Note: This book contains multiple scenes and themes of a sexual nature
Following his selection for work in one of the Ministries David very soon finds out the truth. The wider populace are controlled by fear, propaganda and lies. The workers in the Ministry are controlled by greed, power and lust. He soon learns that the whole system is corrupt, rotten to the core, despite the all-powerful and dispassionate AIs that are supposed to only benefit mankind. But as one man there is little he can do, and certainly nobody he can trust. But there are plenty who want to use him as a weapon is their political infighting and power battles.
Clearly a more technological update on 1984, Hogan tackles this grim subject matter from the human perspectives of David and his childhood friend Juli, who is also pulled into the dark world of the power and corruption. Like peeling a rotten onion, layer after layer is removed, finally revealing the rotten heart. Along the way there are some huge plot twists, shocking events and reveals that completely change how the reader understands this future vision. The ending, which it comes, is certainly cataclysmic.
As with the best science fiction, this casts a light on the world we live in with certain current events clearly used as a basis for how Hogan constructed his dystopia. Sometimes the subtext isn't as subtle as it could be, but there is no denying the chilling warning it delivers.
Note: This book contains multiple scenes and themes of a sexual nature
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