Bücher von Trent Portigal

Branding the present-day as The Neolithic Age was the most brilliant marketing ploy of our generation. Products from smartphones through electric cars to wind farms use increasing amounts of rare and semi-rare earth elements. Companies involved in mining, refining and production decided to come together and promote these elements as the cornerstone of our civilisation. And it worked.The ploy's sole drawback was that it crystallised opposition to these corporate interests, opposition that has only grown bolder and more aggressive over time. When the largest of the companies gives an invaluable gift to a struggling museum, the museum becomes a lightning rod for this conflict, dangerously upending the lives of everyone involved.

According to his doctors, Tomas Stellar is no longer a danger to himself or others. He is released from the psychiatric hospital, only to be horrified by how much society outside the institution is a danger, both to itself and to people like him. Simulated Hysteria is his account of the struggle to come to terms with the madness around him and make a place for himself in the world.