Leave your expectations at the door.
Readers’ Favorite called Nature Against “a bizarre road trip through a funhouse mirror of modern society.”
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In Capital 4, every human problem has been solved. Language, behavior, memory, desire. Even nature has been corrected. Even death requires approval.
Ziyue wants out.
When she is expelled beyond the dome with Emily, a quiet observer who records what others prefer to forget; Rossum, a rule-following robot; and Cesare, a talking dog with very little patience for human nonsense, she expects freedom.
The outside world is not empty. It is filled with bizarre, isolated societies, each with its own extreme cure for human nature.
What follows is a fast-moving, darkly funny, increasingly strange journey through absurd rules, social madness, broken systems, and strangely familiar territories.
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Nature Against is a compact illustrated dystopian satire for readers who enjoy offbeat speculative fiction, sharp humor, allegory, strange societies, and stories that leave space to connect the dots.
Not a standard rebellion story. Not a cozy post-apocalyptic adventure. Not recycled dystopia with different names.
For readers willing to think, smile, and feel slightly uncomfortable.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. AN OFFBEAT, BREATHLESS, UNSETTLING DYSTOPIAN SATIRE.A darkly funny road trip through strange societies that look ridiculous until they start feeling familiar.***In Capital 4, every human problem has been solved. Language, behavior, memory, desire. Everyone and everything has been made equal. Nature itself has been corrected. Even death requires approval.Thrown together by circumstance, Emily, an obsessive note-taker; Ziyue, a defiant runaway; Cesare, a disgraced guard dog; and Rossum, a rule-bound compliance bot, leave the suffocating perfection of Capital 4 and enter the wild.Savage Nature is far from pristine. Other cultures have carved out their own spaces, each certain it has found a better way to live. Moving from one to the next, the journey grows stranger, darker, and more dangerous.Survival is only the beginning. The harder part is finding a place where no one will correct, classify, or tame them.But somewhere along the way, the journey begins to uncover the nature they were taught to correct."The deeper they went into Savage Nature, the deeper Savage Nature went into them. The journey demanded an even exchange."***Compact, illustrated, and tightly compressed, Nature Against unfolds in sharp, fast-moving episodes through a succession of strange societies, echoing the satirical journey structure of Gulliver's Travels 300 years on.***For readers who like their dystopia weird, fast, funny, and packed tight. There is plenty of white space on the page, but a lot going on underneath. Leave your expectations at the door and get pulled into something unusual. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9788397577329
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. AN OFFBEAT, BREATHLESS, UNSETTLING DYSTOPIAN SATIRE.A darkly funny road trip through strange societies that look ridiculous until they start feeling familiar.***In Capital 4, every human problem has been solved. Language, behavior, memory, desire. Everyone and everything has been made equal. Nature itself has been corrected. Even death requires approval.Thrown together by circumstance, Emily, an obsessive note-taker; Ziyue, a defiant runaway; Cesare, a disgraced guard dog; and Rossum, a rule-bound compliance bot, leave the suffocating perfection of Capital 4 and enter the wild.Savage Nature is far from pristine. Other cultures have carved out their own spaces, each certain it has found a better way to live. Moving from one to the next, the journey grows stranger, darker, and more dangerous.Survival is only the beginning. The harder part is finding a place where no one will correct, classify, or tame them.But somewhere along the way, the journey begins to uncover the nature they were taught to correct."The deeper they went into Savage Nature, the deeper Savage Nature went into them. The journey demanded an even exchange."***Compact, illustrated, and tightly compressed, Nature Against unfolds in sharp, fast-moving episodes through a succession of strange societies, echoing the satirical journey structure of Gulliver's Travels 300 years on.***For readers who like their dystopia weird, fast, funny, and packed tight. There is plenty of white space on the page, but a lot going on underneath. Leave your expectations at the door and get pulled into something unusual. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9788397577329
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