Name: The Quiet Below
SKU: 66730098
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Author: Van Der Neut, Joshua
ISBN: 9789698392376

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Van Der Neut, Joshua

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224

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22.9x15.2x1.6 cm

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9789698392376

The Quiet Below

Van Der Neut, Joshua (Author) · Pharelo House · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Quiet Below"

A consequence rerouted. A system unburdened. A silence that remembers.In a society governed by predictive algorithms and ritualised compliance, no decision-makers bear the cost of their decisions. Pain is measured, reassigned, and rerouted-never felt by those who issue the commands.The Untethered live above consequence, elevated by status and shielded by design. The Grounded, by contrast, absorb the fallout of every policy, every failure, every quiet miscalculation. It's called balance. It's called fairness. The system insists it works.But when a miscalculation causes a catastrophic surge-eighty-seven Grounded lives crushed beneath a burden meant to be diffused-the system shrugs. The Mesh flashes green. A bureaucratic silence settles.Jalen Veil, a low-tier technician, wasn't supposed to find the error. Selix Arra, the architect of the burden-routing system, wasn't meant to feel it. Saela Rynn, a medic in the forgotten zones, wasn't meant to remember what came before.Now, the illusion of order is fracturing. Beneath the charters and codes, the system has stopped calculating truth-it only preserves itself.The Quiet Below is a dystopian descent into the machinery of unaccountable governance, where consequence is diluted, bureaucracy reigns, and silence becomes its own kind of rebellion.