Well-Being: An Anthology of Managed Outcomes

By Lance Wallace

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In a world increasingly managed by systems designed to optimize stability, efficiency, and peace, a quiet question begins to echo across centuries: What happens when humanity no longer chooses its own fate?

Well-Being: An Anthology of Managed Outcomes traces the long arc of a civilization that gradually trades uncertainty for control. From the unseen hands of a shadow consortium quietly guiding modern events, to a future where justice is entertainment and algorithms govern society, the stories follow humanity's evolving relationship with power, order, and meaning.

Across multiple eras, systems grow more sophisticated, more benevolent-and more absolute. A producer discovers that stories shape reality more than laws. A man who embraces suffering challenges a world built on comfort. And centuries later, in the ruins of a collapsed technological paradise, children learn how a perfectly balanced world finally broke.

Blending political intrigue, speculative dystopia, philosophical conflict, and post-apocalyptic myth, this anthology explores the tension between stability and freedom, prediction and choice, comfort and truth. Each story examines a different moment in the same long experiment: the attempt to engineer a world without chaos.

But systems that eliminate risk may also eliminate something far more essential.

And when equilibrium becomes a cage, even the smallest act of human variance can change everything..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GRVFZ1KY
• ISBN13: 9798251314625
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"