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Stealing Cinderella

“I’m used to being excluded and feeling unwelcome. I’ve been a hoodlum my whole life. They want to tell me I’m stealing her? Fuck it. Okay, I’m stealing her.”
–Mark D. Diehl, South Korea, 1994

I arrived in South Korea with $20 and a dubious offer to teach English. Jennifer was the wickedly smart, fiercely independent second daughter of one of Korea’s most influential families. We fell in love in a country where even sitting together brought angry stares, taunts, and threats. Our

employer forbade us from seeing each other, but we continued in secret. Eventually, her family became suspicious and had her followed. Their efforts to separate us in the days that followed were relentless and violent. We were forced to abandon everything and flee to Hong Kong, where our situation only became more dire.

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The Book of Eadie

Corporations control all of the world’s diminishing resources and all of its governments, dividing the world into two types of people: those who unquestioningly obey, and those who die.

Most of the world’s seventeen billion humans are unconscious, perpetually serving their employers as part of massive brain trusts. The ecosystem has collapsed, naturally growing plants have been declared illegal, and everything from food to housing to medicines must be synthesized from secretions of genetically modified bacteria. Only corporate ambulatory workers can afford patented synthetic food, and non-corporates fight for survival in the city’s sprawling, grotesquely violent ghetto known only as the Zone.

Nineteen-year-old waitress Eadie challenges the hierarchy when she assists a bedraggled alcoholic known as the Prophet, drawing massive social-control machinery into play against her. The Prophet predicts she’s the general who will lead a revolution, and a few desperate souls start listening. How can she and her followers possibly prevail when she’s being hunted by a giant corporation and the Federal Angels it directs?

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The Book of Wanda

When Corporations own everything that humans need to stay alive, your company is your home, your food source, your school, and your hospital. It supplants your friendships, your religion, and even your family. Leaving the corporation means forfeiting it all, and those who remain inside refer in whispers to the Departed: those who have been cast out.

The Book of Wanda’s narrative winds like DNA around that of the Book of Eadie, sharing some of its timeline and overlapping it at key events. Wanda, a dedicated laboratory worker and mother, is forced out of Amelix Integrations and dumped on the streets with other Departed. Like all corporate ambulatory workers, she has been engineered, educated, and conditioned for corporate compliance, but how can that background help her survive the Zone’s violent anarchy?

Organizations grow ever larger, even in the Zone. As armies clash around her, Wanda begins to understand how vulnerable a lone individual can be. She is swept into the heart of the conflict and finds herself present at the most important incident in all of human evolution.

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