Utopia's Wake: Terms of Survival

The gates of Sector 12 lock at 21:00. Miss curfew, and the drones don't ask questions.

Edward "Ludd" Loom helped build the system. Strategic communications specialist, rising star in the regime—until he tried to expose it. Now he moves through Sector 12 under an alias, watching the cameras he deployed track every desperate body sprinting for safety.

Sefu Makori has seen this before. His country was destabilized, starved, and erased by weaponized media and algorithmic intervention. He knows how tech oligarchies operate: they don't just control governments—they rewire reality itself.

When democracy fell, five corporations filled the vacuum:

• The Fox controls what you believe.
• The Vampire controls whether you eat.
• The Hog controls what reaches you.
• The Peacock sees everything you do.
• The Vessel makes it all legal.

Together, Ludd and Sefu start doing the unthinkable: hunting the architects of digital tyranny.

But tearing out the spine of a surveillance state is the easy part.

What comes after is worse.

A near-future dystopian thriller about surveillance, propaganda, and the dangerous space between revolution and what replaces it.

For readers of 1984, Neuromancer, and Red Rising

I don't have a publication date but I will update when I know.