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Book 3D

Skinning A Shadow

Echoes from the Future

By Duncan J Brown

'Like damp their progress creeps. The only way to defeat it is to roll it back like a carpet! Regress to where true moral fibre once cultivated real civilisation!'

The Global State Authority is segregated into four classes: Owners, Employables, Semi‑Employables and Unemployables – Owns, Ems, Sems and Uns.
Information is state rationed. Each tier must watch the others in a world where ‘informing’ is considered more useful than ‘being informed’.
If you’re an Owner, fraternisation with other classes is a crime. Love your servant and you risk arrest, torture, exile to a ghetto – or death.
How far would you go for love in a world designed to deny it?

"What is a shadow but that which trails after us, precedes us or accompanies us as we walk through life?"

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“It's not always injudicious to disseminate a little pornography of war.”

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“I never had a childhood. I’ve been a very old man from a very young age.”

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“ A gameshow to one ain’t much of a game to another, especially when the target’s on your back.

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“ Her eyes widened as if she were standing in utter darkness, alone without so much as a god or a devil to comfort her.

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