The Book of Eadie
Volume One of the SEVENTEEN Trilogy
by Mark D. Diehl
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Pub Date Apr 04 2018 | Archive Date Nov 14 2018
Fencetree Productions | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
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. How can she and her followers possibly prevail when she’s being hunted by a giant corporation and the Federal Angels it directs?
A Note From the Publisher
First Edition published 10/29/2013. Ebook available for $2.99.
Marketing Plan
The world is already controlled by multinational corporations, though many groups (like Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, the 99 Percent, etc.) are attempting to challenge them. The SEVENTEEN Trilogy envisions how humanity itself will have to change if those groups fail in their mission. Contemporary humans are ill-suited to such an environment, and it is clear that in order to stay alive, we will have to evolve into a corporate species. This is the cautionary tale to which those groups will point when the uninitiated ask why they're fighting so hard.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781986027113 |
| PRICE | $14.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Nicola S, Reviewer
Definitely a book that gets you thinking! The author created a world where corporations took charge of both humanity and nature. Those “lucky” enough to work for the corporations had everything required to survive supplied to them whereas the “undesirables” are left to fend for themselves. Elements of the clockwork orange and a definite big brother society.
It is easy to see that if we are not careful the human race could succumb to this fate. Great book, I’d highly recommend to others and an author to look out for.
Tricia B, Librarian
This book was a lot of fun! A new look at a dystopian future: a corporation-run world where every decision leads to either (a) a better future within the company, (b) a "chance" at re-education, or (c) a life of struggle outside the system. Enter into the story Eadie, a young woman whose rebellion against the system has been foretold by "Prophet". An enjoyable page-turner that takes a corporation-run world to a new level.
Susan E, Educator
This book is of a dark and disturbing dystopia; a world so depleted of resources and ruined by pollution that one's only hope for survival in any semblance of comfort is in submitting to one of the corporations that control everything. People who are willing to give of themselves to a corporation, not just work for a company, are afforded all of the necessities of life: food, medical care, comfortable places to live away from the crime and filth of those not so protected, but at what cost? Those who are found not to be as productive and subservient as expected are either reprogrammed or ousted from the protected environment into the Zone, where everyone is scrounging for the mere necessities of existence, where lawlessness and poverty reign.
That is the setting, but the story is about Eadie, a nineteen-year-old waitress at a Zone diner who gets pushed and pulled by fate. People she meets that seem to come from nowhere with many different backgrounds influence her, along with the preachings of the Prophet who goads her into fighting back for her own life and those around her as their General.
I found this book to be a difficult read, but well worth the effort. I caution you to read slowly and drink in all hints. There is little fluff here. Everything is important and Diehl brings it all masterfully together by the end.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I see our society going in the direction of this disturbing look at our probable future. I certainly hope that enough people will see what Diehl is trying desperately to show us in time to make a difference in our futures.
I received a free e-copy of #TheBookOfEadie from #NetGalley for an honest review.
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