The Madman

THE
MADMAN
In any scientific democracy, anomalies are discarded in favor of generally
accepted norms established for the good of all-but what if you are the
anomaly? Would you have the will to persevere and follow your destiny
to the end, or would you roll over and adhere to the ever-growing list of
social conventions telling you who you are?
Steven is an outsider delivered unsuspectingly into an environment
controlled by impersonal and predetermined rules. Despite attempts to
strip him of his identity, Steven has a sense of being different, which is
not a laudable trait in this world where being different spells destruction.
Although fictional in nature, The Madman exists in the shadows of our current
reality. With every new generation, the screws are tightened down further, and
somehow people still find comfort in the jaws that clutch them. Fortunately,
this yarn is set in a future that has not yet come, but if it does arrive someday,
what would you do if faced with being an anomaly in a society that would
rather have you discarded than permit your continued existence?
"Stevenson delivers a bleak view of the future that - in its obsessions with
technology and easy sensual pleasures - is alarmingly close to the present."
-BlueInk Review
"An energetic and engaging vision of a dark dystopia."
-Kirkus Review