by
Jason Werbeloff
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GENRE:
Dystopian Science Fiction
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What
if your thoughts were not your own?
Plunge
into HEDON for soul-twisting sci-fi.
In
2051, the Bhutanese Empire rules post-apocalyptic Shangri with
iron-fisted Buddhist compassion. Happiness is compulsory, but making
everyone happy isn’t easy in an overpopulated world. Breeders are
ghettoed, homosexuality is mandatory, and Shangrians’ happiness
levels are strictly monitored by hedometers implanted in their heads.
Become depressed, or feel too happy without helping others feel the
same, and The Tax Man will get angry. Very angry.
Gemini
and Cyan, winners of the pregnancy lottery, are on the run. Cyan
can’t fall pregnant, and Gemini is addicted to the Experience
Machine. Will they evade The Tax Man, and find a way to end the
brutal pleasures of Shangri?
The
lovechild of Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale, HEDON is
gritty satire on a dystopia drunk with bigotry and positive thinking.
“A
one of a kind dystopian novel.”
“As
politically depraved as anyone could desire.”
“This
is storytelling at its best”.
–
ReadersFavorite.com
5 star review of HEDON
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Excerpt:
Cyan had
never slept so well. Nor eaten so well. Between Anand and Larisa,
there were pounds of food diffusing from the kitchen at all hours.
The trays of sandwiches and salmon and eggs and toast and roast-pork
and creamed spinach and tortillas and honey-dripped-pancakes
overflowed the dining-room table, and then onto the side-stools in
the lounge, up the staircase to the bedrooms. In the last week of the
pregnancy, Cyan had charged through the house, pounding up and down
the pancaked staircase, gobbling every morsel as she passed, already
reaching for the next plate. “J-j-jesus,” Milton would say, “the
woman can eat.”
Once the
baby came, Cyan couldn’t keep her eyes open. She slept, and slept
some more. The baby could scream. The sky could fall, and she
wouldn’t notice. But when the sky did fall that afternoon, she
woke.
A bang
shook the wooden frame of the house, hard enough to shift the bed
away from the wall.
She felt
for the baby on her chest. But there was no child. Her fingers
searched every inch of the duvet in the dark bedroom. There was no
child.
“Anand?”
she called into the gloom. He must have taken her downstairs.
She
rolled off the bed and stood, her pelvis tender. Her knees shook, and
threatened to buckle. But she braced herself against the mattress,
and felt more sure-footed as her brain settled.
She was
on her way down the stairs when the second bang sounded. And then a
third. She hurried now, the dizziness evaporating.
“Anand!”
she yelled, hurrying through the house. He wasn’t in the living
room. He wasn’t in the kitchen.
“What
is it?” Larisa asked, her eyes puffy with sleep.
“Where
is Anand?”
“What
was that noise?” Larisa yawned.
“I
can’t find the baby.” Cyan’s voice was as shaky as her knees.
“What?”
asked Larisa, the sleep fading from her face.
“The
baby,” said Cyan. “And Anand. Where are they?”
The two
women hurried out onto the porch. Flames danced in the sunflower
field, and most of the wheat was flattened.
“Jesus,”
said Larisa.
“Anand!”
Cyan shrieked, as another sonic boom shook the house, almost knocking
them off their feet. She sprung from the porch before Larisa could
stop her, and sprinted toward the flames.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Human.
Male. From an obscure planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Sci-fi novelist
with a PhD in philosophy. Likes chocolates, Labradors, and zombies
(not necessarily in that order). Werbeloff spends his days
constructing thought experiments, while trying to muster enough guilt
to go to the gym.
He's
written two novels, Hedon and The Solace Pill, and the short story
anthology, Obsidian Worlds. His books will make your brain hurt. And
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