7,834 words (≈ 31 minutes)
The price of peace is high in the post-war British zone of 2042. The female government, led by Verity Wood, blames male aggression for the devastating “Final War”, which has resulted in a shrunken world divided between secular West and clerical East. In the British Zone, women are in control and men are marginalized. Technology and order are the new orthodoxies, surveillance and indoctrination the favoured methods of control. Those who step out of line, mainly… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2012
Published: 2012-05-16
Word count: 7,834 words (≈ 31 minutes)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: speculative fiction, dystopia, gender, what-if, love, polarisation
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