NØT NØW: A Near Future Thriller
By Neil AnthØny
"An intriguing and thought-provoking read. The pacing kept things moving while still giving readers plenty to think about along the way." - Alena B., NetGalley, Four Star Reviewer
"Extremely descriptive but not in an overwhelming way. I've never had a scene so illustrated in my mind." - Five Star ARC Review
THE HIVE SHAPED HER. NOW COMES THE RECLAMATION.
FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION: Every chapter opens with an original full-page Gothic illustration, blending old-world engraving with a hig...
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"An intriguing and thought-provoking read. The pacing kept things moving while still giving readers plenty to think about along the way." - Alena B., NetGalley, Four Star Reviewer
"Extremely descriptive but not in an overwhelming way. I've never had a scene so illustrated in my mind." - Five Star ARC Review
THE HIVE SHAPED HER. NOW COMES THE RECLAMATION.
FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION: Every chapter opens with an original full-page Gothic illustration, blending old-world engraving with a high-tech future.
For fans of Black Mirror and Severance, and readers of visceral near-future techno-thrillers like Altered Carbon and Nexus.
For fourteen seconds, Anaïs was dead.
The Hive brought her back.
Not out of mercy.
Assets do not have permission to retire.
In 2063, the State does not simply watch its citizens. It scores them, allocates them, corrects them, and improves them. Behaviour is currency. Compliance is survival. The body is no longer private property.
Anaïs is State property: a synthetic hybrid built from human consciousness and corporate architecture, designed for absolute obedience. She operates as a calibrated, lethal enforcer in a system that has learned to mistake control for care.
She was never supposed to remember the moment she stopped breathing.
The erasure was meant to be absolute.
But when Anaïs begins to feel the human casualties buried beneath the State's optimised data, the Hive logs it as a glitch. The resistance recognises it as an exploit: proof that the system can be broken from the inside.
They need her to become the breach.
The Hive needs her corrected before reclamation spreads.
Caught between the system that owns her and the people willing to use her, Anaïs must decide whether she is still the State's weapon or the first fracture in its design.
But Anaïs is not malfunctioning.
She is waking up.
Her nature is overriding the synthetic architecture built to contain it, and the Hive has no category for an asset reclaiming its own sovereignty.
NØT NØW is a visceral dystopian thriller packed with gritty near-future violence, corporate power struggles, behavioural control, and the terror of waking up inside someone else's design. It is a high-concept story of defiance, in which one weaponised body, built for compliance, begins to fight its
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