In this prequel to The Standing Ground, we travel back two generations to the origins of the oppressive E-Government state that infiltrates every aspect of people's lives in the decade following Brexit and a global pandemic. But, as the darkness overtakes Britain and other areas of Europe, the light of resistance wakes in a community that spans the Celtic outposts of Brittany and North Wales. And in a strange child, Myrddin Emrys, also known as Merlin.
Weaving together Arthurian legend and exploratory fiction of the near future, The Roots of the Ground explores the human cost of a monoculture that tramples freedom and privacy and asserts with Carl Jung that:
'As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.'
ISBN: | 9781788641197 |
Publication date: | 4th October 2021 |
Author: | Jan Fortune |
Publisher: | Cinnamon Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 145 pages |
Series: | The Standing Ground Trilogy |
Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction Dystopian and utopian fiction Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction |