I'm the author of 2084, a dystopian novel set in Washington D.C. after America has followed its current authoritarian trajectory to its conclusion.
A government surveillance network monitors every citizen. A federal agency employs "Erasers," bureaucrats whose job is digitally scrubbing dissidents from the photographic record. Marshall Smith is one of those Erasers, until a chance encounter pulls him into the underground Resistance.
I wrote it because fiction can reach people where headlines and news cannot. The patterns of authoritarianism are not new, but they feel urgently present right now: the erosion of civil liberties, the criminalization of dissent, the slow normalization of the unacceptable. I wanted to write the Orwell book for this moment.
If this group is about imagining and fighting for a better world, this book is about what we're fighting against, and why the fight matters.
A government surveillance network monitors every citizen. A federal agency employs "Erasers," bureaucrats whose job is digitally scrubbing dissidents from the photographic record. Marshall Smith is one of those Erasers, until a chance encounter pulls him into the underground Resistance.
I wrote it because fiction can reach people where headlines and news cannot. The patterns of authoritarianism are not new, but they feel urgently present right now: the erosion of civil liberties, the criminalization of dissent, the slow normalization of the unacceptable. I wanted to write the Orwell book for this moment.
If this group is about imagining and fighting for a better world, this book is about what we're fighting against, and why the fight matters.