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Scorch

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In this near-future dystopia, the corporate take-over of American democracy is complete. Three huge conglomerates now run the country—everything is privatized. Wealth worship feeds income inequality; corporate propaganda determines everyone's thoughts and desires; and because everyone must work two or more jobs to survive in this economy, no one has the time, focus, or presence of mind to question what "everyone knows." No one, that is, until 30-year-old Arel Ashe begins to see things differently.

Arel works in an adstories department by day and a forgotten "public" library at night. Initially, she believes what everyone else does—that happiness comes with material success. But a disturbing event makes her begin to question her culture's common wisdoms. Pitted against the Corporacracy and a deranged self-help author turned religious zealot, Arel hatches a plan to save the world based on ideas she's discovered in a place where no one else would bother to look—old books.

Scorch, a dystopian novel in the tradition of 1984 and Brave New World, portrays life in a country free of Big Brother government, and in the hard grip of corporate greed. Revealed through the struggles of one character are the myriad ways in which extreme unregulated capitalism starves the human soul.
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"I acquired this novel, right out of the proverbial slush pile, for Soft Skull Press almost twenty years ago. Two decades later, Scorch isn't satire, it's the news. The person I hired to scan the text was shocked at how prescient Scorch is, and kept sending me links to articles showing that Nauman's predictions are coming true." – Nick Mamatas

Language: English

Format: ebook

Release: May 10, 2001

Scorch

0/5 ( ratings)

In this near-future dystopia, the corporate take-over of American democracy is complete. Three huge conglomerates now run the country—everything is privatized. Wealth worship feeds income inequality; corporate propaganda determines everyone's thoughts and desires; and because everyone must work two or more jobs to survive in this economy, no one has the time, focus, or presence of mind to question what "everyone knows." No one, that is, until 30-year-old Arel Ashe begins to see things differently.

Arel works in an adstories department by day and a forgotten "public" library at night. Initially, she believes what everyone else does—that happiness comes with material success. But a disturbing event makes her begin to question her culture's common wisdoms. Pitted against the Corporacracy and a deranged self-help author turned religious zealot, Arel hatches a plan to save the world based on ideas she's discovered in a place where no one else would bother to look—old books.

Scorch, a dystopian novel in the tradition of 1984 and Brave New World, portrays life in a country free of Big Brother government, and in the hard grip of corporate greed. Revealed through the struggles of one character are the myriad ways in which extreme unregulated capitalism starves the human soul.
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"I acquired this novel, right out of the proverbial slush pile, for Soft Skull Press almost twenty years ago. Two decades later, Scorch isn't satire, it's the news. The person I hired to scan the text was shocked at how prescient Scorch is, and kept sending me links to articles showing that Nauman's predictions are coming true." – Nick Mamatas

Language: English

Format: ebook

Release: May 10, 2001

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