![]() ![]() They are capable of a quasi-supernatural ability to detect lies, which destabilize the very world around them, the membrane of reality roiling like a pillowcase of wasps. And upholding this order is the Speculative Service. All facts of the day are recorded in the citizen’s Day Book all records of an individual’s life are filed and await enshrinement in the permanent record of the state all motions are captured by cameras. the Moon is in orbit around the Earth-as a form of catechism, handshake and source of strength. Citizens exchange facts with one another- it is 1 p.m. In the Golden State, formerly known as California, truth is religion, zealotry, comfort. Winters’ Golden State is the dystopian take on the new tool of war du jour: lies.Ī bit too much like Minority Report meets Fahrenheit 451, Winters’ world rests upon one tenement and is protected by a special class of law enforcement beholden to it: lying is a capital offense. ![]() Nothing speaks to the power of a weapon like it inspiring a work of speculative fiction, and Ben H. ![]()
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