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OverviewDemons of Ganymede is a rare kind of novel: austere, unnerving, and structurally unlike anything in contemporary fiction. It refuses spectacle, redemption, and the usual comforts of dystopia. Instead, it observes humanity with forensic calm, through the administrative indifference of entities that are neither malicious nor benevolent - only efficient. Set across five acts, the book disassembles every familiar narrative instinct. Identity is flattened. Meaning is externalised. Emotion becomes a system variable. Angels appear only as moments of quiet presence, unnoticed by any structure. Demons operate without ideology or cruelty; they are simply the procedural machinery of a universe that has learned to run without myth. Across this architecture, individual lives flicker and vanish: a teacher whose final visions are analysed without sentiment, a dissident whose execution is processed like paperwork, a woman whose oxygen deprivation becomes a case study, a wealthy patriarch whose long-held secrets alter nothing, and finally a child whose death arrives without explanation or drama. These stories puncture the acts like cold, precise incisions-reminding the reader that the system recognises no scale and grants no special category of meaning. Alongside them, the Four Mortalities Protocol traces the same date across four centuries, revealing how little difference time, culture, and progress make to a world observed from above. The effect is cumulative: a widening of perspective until perspective itself becomes untenable. By the final act, the machinery is still running, perfect and indifferent, but the centre of gravity has shifted. The system continues; attention does not return to it. What remains is human presence stripped of symbolism: sitting with someone who is ill, helping someone who has fallen, staying because leaving would feel dishonest. No miracle. No victory. Just the quiet after power of being there. This is not a story of rebellion or transcendence. It offers no solution and asks for none. It is a philosophical pressure-device disguised as a novel - a clinical yet surreal examination of consciousness, systems and the smallness of meaning in a world that does not require it. Readers will not finish comforted. They will finish changed, unsure how to re-enter their own attention without noticing what the book has rearranged. For readers who want fiction that refuses performance, refuses spectacle, and refuses to lie. For those who can tolerate a narrative that watches them back. Demons of Ganymede is what remains when nothing is hidden anymore and nothing is free. Full Product DetailsAuthor: W J RileyPublisher: Independently Published Imprint: Independently Published Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9798278270638Pages: 410 Publication Date: 10 December 2025 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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