19: 3 books

The war had ended six years before his birth. The world it left behind was a colorless place of sporadic electricity. The government was a distant shell, a thin mask for a rotting face. Any reference to democracy was lip service. They still held joke elections. Nobody cared. People lived...

A different guard came and collected him, brought him to the same officer that had watched him beaten the night before. Erich sat in the same chair, already shaking. "Well, we've done what we can. You're to go to a labor camp." A glance at the files. "You've got several skills...

Fear and faith are indivisible on the Republic of Earth, where privacy is nonexistent, creativity is a crime, and intelligence is a heresy. Leander Schaiden has spent his young life in a losing battle against the State and the Church, seeking any freedom he can steal. He dreams of an...