Corporations control all of the world's diminishing resources and all of its governments, dividing the world into two types of people: those who unquestioningly obey, and those who die.Most of the world's seventeen billion humans are unconscious, perpetually serving their employers as part of massiv
The Book of Eadie, Volume One of the Seventeen Trilogy
β Scribed by Diehl, Mark D
- Book ID
- 110481321
- Publisher
- Mark D. Diehl
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Series
- Seventeen 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781732819900
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Corporations control all of the world's diminishing resources and all of its governments, dividing the world into two types of people: those who unquestioningly obey, and those who die.Most of the world's seventeen billion humans are unconscious, perpetually serving their employers as part of massive brain trusts. The ecosystem has collapsed, naturally growing plants have been declared illegal, and everything from food to housing to medicines must be synthesized from secretions of genetically modified bacteria. Only corporate ambulatory workers can afford patented synthetic food, and non-corporates fight for survival in the city's sprawling, grotesquely violent ghetto known only as the Zone.Nineteen year-old waitress Eadie challenges the hierarchy when she assists a bedraggled alcoholic known as the Prophet, drawing massive social-control machinery into play against her. The Prophet predicts she's the general who will lead a revolution, and a few desperate souls start listening....
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