RELEASE NOTES:

This copy has a black cover

Came in a box of books from Molyneux

This is one of the best books I have EVER read ,it is great and I loved it from the first page and was sad when I got to the last and found I had ran out of book .
It is based loosely in the future but could be now , and warns about conspicious consumtion in the same way that George Orwells 1984 warned about big brother .
There are no politions only a democracy machine . The general public are called customers and everyone is rated on how much they buy .
It is set on an Island called Atlantica and also a prison ship . The prison ship is where all the marginals , or people who don't agree with the machine end up , the people who run Atlantice are called Libertyforce , but they are really just doing what the machine tells them .
Everyone thinks they are living in Utopia , but really they are just earing loyalty points .
The two main characters are on either side , one works in Libertyforce head office and the other is bound for the prision ship . I can't say any more or I will give the plot away
It really makes you think about how we live our lives , it is not preachy or scary , well until you open your purse / wallet and see all the loyalty cards .
It is a great read and everyone who has ever shopped in a chain shop , or been pulled in by special offers , should read it

I Have passed this on to lyles who I am sure will enjoy this as much as I have

A great meaty little read. If you ever liked 1984, or Handmaid's Tale, or Brave New World then you'll like this distopia.

Picked up at the Arts and Crafts Flea Market, Bablake Boys Club, Medieval Spon Street.

Meet Hannah Park, slave to the democracy machine, and Harvey Kidd, the man the system spat out. Atlantica, a world of compulsive consumption, fervent Utopianism, emotional discovery, and love on the rocks. Torn from his family, exiled from his native island of Atlantica, and imprisoned on the former Disney ship Sea Hero, one-time computer whiz Harvey Nash has found solace in the voodoo art of papier-mache. But as the execution date of his violent cellmate approaches, he is confronted with daily reminders of the wrongful sentence meted out to him by the consumer-dedicated system he once voted for. Is it too late for vengeance of Libertycare's Facilitator General, and the machine known as the Boss? Was the disappearance of the woman Harvey loved a tragic accident - or something more sinister? And is the notorious Sect really so dangerous that only erasure of civil liberties can contain it? In a witty, satirical vision of the future worthy of Orwell or Huxley, Jensen evokes a world of rampant consumerism, blind obedience, virtual love and home-chewed papier-mache.

Passed on to a colleague to say goodbye...