In a world reeling from a collective vision of humanity's demise, society teeters on the brink of collapse. To restore order, the Department of Psychological Welfare introduces a medication designed to erase the traumatic memory of the Event. While most comply, a resistant minority-dubbed the "Sanguinaires"-refuse to forget. Unmoved by pharmacological amnesia, they confront the harrowing truth head-on, questioning the nature of the vision and its implications for free will and fate.
This second edition delves deeper into the psyche of the Sanguinaires, exploring their existential defiance and the societal mechanisms that seek to suppress dissent. Through a blend of philosophical inquiry and dystopian narrative, the novel examines the tension between collective conformity and individual consciousness.
First published by Quattro Books in 2018, The Sanguinaires is strangely prescient of COVID-19 and the tyrannical policies of lockdowns, quarantines, social ostracism, the weaponization of false public health emergencies, and "medical" totalitarianism. Oddly enough, the prophetically themed book predicted the actual future and came to the author in a vision during the early 2010s. This book is, by definition, prescient and deeply reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's VALIS.