The Beam, Season One

✍ Scribed by Sean Platt; Sean Platt

• Publisher: Sterling & Stone
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 557 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A Sci-Fi political thriller set in a terrifyingly real future

When all of humanity is connected, the center of the Web is the seat of true power.

In a century, the world's old political borders have dissolved. At the center of what remains of civilization sits the NAU, a nation ruled by two political parties: Enterprise, the sink-or-swim party where each party member has no one else to blame for their starvation or astronomical wealth, and Directorate, whose members have a guaranteed safety net but can never rise above their station.

Every six years, an election determines the course of the NAU's future. The process is called Shift, and the next one is coming soon. With humanity intertwined by way of the Beam -- a hyper-advanced version of the Internet that serves every whim and need -- Shift is the be-all and the end-all. More than an electoral method, it is the future's political discourse..

In the midst of the country's...