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INTO THE CIRCLE, THE BEGINNING: The Voice promised the world but what would it want in return? - Couverture souple

TOMKINSON, ROY

 
9781698452708: INTO THE CIRCLE, THE BEGINNING: The Voice promised the world but what would it want in return?

Synopsis

The Catalonians live in harmony with nature, are vegetarians and know no aggression; jealousy, anger and manipulation are unknown; they have a symbiotic relationship with trees, dragons and other animals. This changes when ciphers are born, purportedly, to help make life easier for the tribe, but as time passes things change. Ciphers are aggressive, lack empathy, cheat, steal, lie, and are in direct opposition to the passivity and honesty of the tribe. Passon, a Catalonian, and Augean, a cipher, become friends but Passon is continually taken advantage of until slowly, without realisation, ciphers dominate, exerting a master/slave existence on the tribe, enforcing their new power with a brutality that the tribe had no mechanism to stop. Augean, the leader, is ruthless, the slightest transgression brutally enforced by torture and other means. People go missing, dark forces are blamed. Augean saying he’s the saviour, causing and using disruption and murder to further strengthen his power. Passon’s eyes are opened, the cipher’s grip on the tribe has gone too far but it is too late to do anything positive to rectify the situation. When alone on his rock, Augean hears THE VOICE constantly dripping vitriol into his ear telling him he has free choice and can have anything he wants if he swears fealty to THE VOICE without revealing what he needs to do or who THE VOICE is. He is turned into a creature of evil without a shred of goodness. The aim is to show how one species comes to dominate another and how it is achieved in a methodical and systematic way by lies, deceit and brute force. This is the first part of four books. In The Beginning, sets the scene of what happens in later books but it is a story in itself with a definitive start and end. I have used the oaks and cIphers as allegories to emphasise and contrast between the humans and other creatures and how they differ in shape and personality. I hope you read the complete story of Into The Circle, especially, The Beginning. The Voice is not revealed. If you need to know who he is you will need to read the whole series.

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