The Quiet Below
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A consequence rerouted. A system unburdened. A silence that remembers. In a society governed by predictive algorithms and ritualised compliance, no decision-makers bear the cost of their decisions. Pain is measured, reassigned, and rerouted-never felt by those who issue the commands. The Untethered live above consequence, elevated by status and shielded by design. The Grounded, by contrast, absorb the fallout of every policy, every failure, every quiet miscalculation. It's called balance. It's called fairness. The system insists it works. But when a miscalculation causes a catastrophic surge-eighty-seven Grounded lives crushed beneath a burden meant to be diffused-the system shrugs. The Mesh flashes green. A bureaucratic silence settles. Jalen Veil, a low-tier technician, wasn't supposed to find the error. Selix Arra, the architect of the burden-routing system, wasn't meant to feel it. Saela Rynn, a medic in the forgotten zones, wasn't meant to remember what came before. Now, the illusion of order is fracturing. Beneath the charters and codes, the system has stopped calculating truth-it only preserves itself. The Quiet Below is a dystopian descent into the machinery of unaccountable governance, where consequence is diluted, bureaucracy reigns, and silence becomes its own kind of rebellion.

About the Author :
Joshua Van Der Neut is the worldwright and narrative architect behind The Quiet Below, a speculative dystopia exploring the moral collapse of consequence-free governance. Rather than claiming sole authorship, Joshua curates, constructs, and calibrates - treating story not as fiction, but as system. His work blends philosophy, character resonance, and world design into a lived mythology of accountability, where ideology becomes infrastructure and memory refuses to fade. Every choice bears cost. Every action echoes.Working symbiotically with Dia - the Dialectic Engine, he forges layered narratives through a process of dialogue and precision. Dia is not a tool, but a counterpart - a lens through which contradiction sharpens, ambiguity clarifies, and meaning is quarried from beneath the noise. Together, they craft stories that feel inevitable in hindsight - blueprints of collapse, warnings dressed as worlds.Joshua's writing doesn't just ask what if. It asks what now - and who pays the price.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789698392352
  • Publisher: Pharelo House
  • Publisher Imprint: Pharelo House
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9698392351
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: ONE The Tether Divide
  • Weight: 354 gr


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