Echoes of rebellion

By S L Payne

THE WORLD BENEATH SILENCE

By S. L. Payne

Silence is Safety. Emotion is Anarchy. Obedience is Peace.

In the clinical, chrome-and-glass towers of the Central Core, humanity's soul has been scrubbed clean. Subdermal neural implants ensure absolute order-blanketing thought, scraping away dreams, and erasing dangerous flaws like grief, fear, and love.

Citizen 512-N, known to the system only as a precise and silent worker, has never questioned the Collective. Until the night a stray thread of music slips past her filters, cracking something open in her chest. For the first time in her life, she sheds a single tear-a Class-four emotional deviation caught by a city drone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY9ZVXZS
• ISBN13: 9798235836518
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: S.L.Payne
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"