You are the surveillance.
The system watches through your eyes. When you are always under surveillance, your behaviour changes. Everyone becomes alike. The zeitgeist becomes uniformity.
Now everyone acts, looks, dresses and expresses the same, and talks the same stilted language. You obey the system. You don’t dare be different. Deviate from the zeitgeist and be punished. The system keeps you the same. The system keeps you safe.
Some have managed to escape. Dared to rebel. The system has responded.
T7 is a Controller, able to take control of anyone at will. Hunting down the runners who have managed to defy.
But when T7 hunts down the latest runner, they discover the true reason for the zeitgeist.
Now it's time for T7 to choose.
Will they overthrow the rebels to keep the system safe?
Or will they take back control, and decide to break the system for good?
Will they obey?
Or defy?
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Craig Lea Gordon fell in love with Science Fiction at a very early age. His earliest memory is of bawling his eyes out on a Saturday morning when a shabby looking robot called Metal Mickey appeared on TV. It wasn't anything to do with the low budget production values, but instead because it had displaced Battle of the Planets, his favourite sci-fi program.
Shortly after he insisted that his parents christen their Ferguson Videostar by recording Battlestar Galactica. From the age of six, a good Christmas was defined by whether or not Star Wars was on TV. At 12 he made his Mum rent him a copy of Robocop, and he has never been the same since. Some say he has a hidden prime directive to create terrifying stories of a possible future.
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