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In a world increasingly managed by systems designed to optimize stability, efficiency, and peace, a quiet question begins to echo across centuries: What happens when humanity no longer chooses its own fate?
Well-Being: An Anthology of Managed Outcomes traces the long arc of a civilization that gradually trades uncertainty for control. From the unseen hands of a shadow consortium quietly guiding modern events, to a future where justice is entertainment and algorithms govern society, the stories follow humanity’s evolving relationship with power, order, and meaning.
Across multiple eras, systems grow more sophisticated, more benevolent—and more absolute. A producer discovers that stories shape reality more than laws. A man who embraces suffering challenges a world built on comfort. And centuries later, in the ruins of a collapsed technological paradise, children learn how a perfectly balanced world finally broke.
Blending political intrigue, speculative dystopia, philosophical conflict, and post-apocalyptic myth, this anthology explores the tension between stability and freedom, prediction and choice, comfort and truth. Each story examines a different moment in the same long experiment: the attempt to engineer a world without chaos.
But systems that eliminate risk may also eliminate something far more essential.
And when equilibrium becomes a cage, even the smallest act of human variance can change everything..
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Book Flap DescriptionIn a world increasingly managed by systems designed to optimize stability, efficiency, and peace, a quiet question begins to echo across centuries: What happens when humanity no longer chooses its own fate?Well-Being: An Anthology of Managed Outcomes traces the long arc of a civilization that gradually trades uncertainty for control. From the unseen hands of a shadow consortium quietly guiding modern events, to a future where justice is entertainment and algorithms govern society, the stories follow humanity's evolving relationship with power, order, and meaning.Across multiple eras, systems grow more sophisticated, more benevolent-and more absolute. A producer discovers that stories shape reality more than laws. A man who embraces suffering challenges a world built on comfort. And centuries later, in the ruins of a collapsed technological paradise, children learn how a perfectly balanced world finally broke.Blending political intrigue, speculative dystopia, philosophical conflict, and post-apocalyptic myth, this anthology explores the tension between stability and freedom, prediction and choice, comfort and truth. Each story examines a different moment in the same long experiment: the attempt to engineer a world without chaos.But systems that eliminate risk may also eliminate something far more essential.And when equilibrium becomes a cage, even the smallest act of human variance can change everything. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798251314625
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