Authorpreneur Dashboard – Gary Kirchner
Cromby's Axiom
Literature & Fiction
Before we were all connected, before we were The Hive, there was individualism, privacy, ‘personal space’ . . . so quaint, so unnecessary . . . so dangerous . . .
TOMMY PIERRE ANTIKAGAMAC, a star quarterback, is the most followed player in the world’s most popular sport: American football. While off-season training in the unpopulated European Fallowlands, he abruptly finds himself detached from the Hive. Agonizingly alone in his head for the first time in his life, he panics, becomes hopelessly lost, and then is captured by a fringe group of anti-Hive saboteurs.
The Freemen, as they call themselves, have concocted an audacious plan to ‘cataclysmically disrupt the brain of the Hive,' and Tommy may just be the key they need to make it successful.
But Tommy’s arrival among the Freemen is not as serendipitous as it may appear. Neither he nor his captors suspect that it is not the terrorists, but Tommy, who is the threat to the Hive. And the Hive has ways of protecting itself.
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Why is this book important?
In Cromby’s Axiom I use the genre of near-future dystopian fiction in order to critique our reliance on social media, the incessant erosion of our privacy, and our ever-increasing thirst for celebrity and sensationalism. And it gives us a glimpse of where we are heading. For some people, it's utopia. For others, it's a nightmare. Cromby’s Axiom is a social commentary. A wake-up call. A disturbing look at the insidious intrusion of technology and social media into the way we live and into the very fabric of society.
