Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.
Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed.
Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom.
A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?
In a world where you are obliged to blog about everything, where mortality is very high, mostly because science is a dirty word, where the church is more concerned with keeping people happy than the truth, Trafford Sewell struggles to keep going.
It's a world that's not all to unbelievable, scarily, with roots in 1984 and other dystopias and like other dystopias Trafford is vaguely dissatisfied, where everyone is supposed to blog about everything he keeps secrets even if it will risk his life.
It's interesting, felt a little forced occasionally as if the idea didn't quite keep pace with the characters but still an interesting story, and all to believable.
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