The Last Prayer
Where feeling was forbidden — and believing, a crime
In a megacity that prides itself on having eliminated crime, war, and suffering, there's a price no one says out loud: faith has been declared a disease.
The Aura system monitors every citizen's mind in real time. Anxiety, guilt, anger — all detected and corrected before you even notice what you felt. The city calls this peace. Silas, the technician responsible for auditing the population's "mental deviations," always believed in it — until he finds, in the records of an exemplary woman, a pattern the algorithm cannot name: a state of deep calm, every night, at the same hour. Not fear. Not anger. Something the government's science never learned how to measure.
The investigation leads Silas to a secret group that gathers in the tunnels abandoned beneath the city — people who learned to control even their own breathing so as not to trigger their implants' alarms, just to pray in peace. And what he discovers down there will put everything he ever was at risk.
Because there is a peace that medication can simulate. And there is a peace that only faith can give.
A story about freedom, pain, and the true cost of feeling — for anyone who has ever wondered whether a world without suffering would also be a world without love.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Last PrayerWhere feeling was forbidden - and believing, a crimeIn a megacity that prides itself on having eliminated crime, war, and suffering, there's a price no one says out loud: faith has been declared a disease.The Aura system monitors every citizen's mind in real time. Anxiety, guilt, anger - all detected and corrected before you even notice what you felt. The city calls this peace. Silas, the technician responsible for auditing the population's "mental deviations," always believed in it - until he finds, in the records of an exemplary woman, a pattern the algorithm cannot name: a state of deep calm, every night, at the same hour. Not fear. Not anger. Something the government's science never learned how to measure.The investigation leads Silas to a secret group that gathers in the tunnels abandoned beneath the city - people who learned to control even their own breathing so as not to trigger their implants' alarms, just to pray in peace. And what he discovers down there will put everything he ever was at risk.Because there is a peace that medication can simulate. And there is a peace that only faith can give.A story about freedom, pain, and the true cost of feeling - for anyone who has ever wondered whether a world without suffering would also be a world without love. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798175838931
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Last PrayerWhere feeling was forbidden - and believing, a crimeIn a megacity that prides itself on having eliminated crime, war, and suffering, there's a price no one says out loud: faith has been declared a disease.The Aura system monitors every citizen's mind in real time. Anxiety, guilt, anger - all detected and corrected before you even notice what you felt. The city calls this peace. Silas, the technician responsible for auditing the population's "mental deviations," always believed in it - until he finds, in the records of an exemplary woman, a pattern the algorithm cannot name: a state of deep calm, every night, at the same hour. Not fear. Not anger. Something the government's science never learned how to measure.The investigation leads Silas to a secret group that gathers in the tunnels abandoned beneath the city - people who learned to control even their own breathing so as not to trigger their implants' alarms, just to pray in peace. And what he discovers down there will put everything he ever was at risk.Because there is a peace that medication can simulate. And there is a peace that only faith can give.A story about freedom, pain, and the true cost of feeling - for anyone who has ever wondered whether a world without suffering would also be a world without love. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798175838931
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Last PrayerWhere feeling was forbidden - and believing, a crimeIn a megacity that prides itself on having eliminated crime, war, and suffering, there's a price no one says out loud: faith has been declared a disease.The Aura system monitors every citizen's mind in real time. Anxiety, guilt, anger - all detected and corrected before you even notice what you felt. The city calls this peace. Silas, the technician responsible for auditing the population's 'mental deviations,' always believed in it - until he finds, in the records of an exemplary woman, a pattern the algorithm cannot name: a state of deep calm, every night, at the same hour. Not fear. Not anger. Something the government's science never learned how to measure.The investigation leads Silas to a secret group that gathers in the tunnels abandoned beneath the city - people who learned to control even their own breathing so as not to trigger their implants' alarms, just to pray in peace. And what he discovers down there will put everything he ever was at risk.Because there is a peace that medication can simulate. And there is a peace that only faith can give.A story about freedom, pain, and the true cost of feeling - for anyone who has ever wondered whether a world without suffering would also be a world without love. Seller Inventory # 9798175838931