Golden State

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A shocking vision of our future that is one part Minority Report and one part Chinatown.Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19 year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement and in a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else This is how Laz must, by law, introduce himself, lest he fail to disclose his true purpose or nature, and by doing so, be guilty of a lie.Laz is a resident of The Golden State, a nation resembling California, where like minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life, and governance, increasingly impossible There, surrounded by the high walls of compulsory truth telling, knowingly contradicting the truth the Objectively So is the greatest possible crime Stopping those crimes, punishing them, is Laz s job In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths to speculate on what might have happened in the commission of a crime.But the Golden State is far less a paradise than its name might suggest To monitor, verify, and enforce the Objectively So requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance, recording, and record keeping And when those in control of the truth twist it for nefarious means, the Speculators may be the only ones with the power to fight back. Best Read [ Golden State ] by [ Ben H. Winters ] – kino-fada.fr This book gave me 1984 and The Giver vibes with its dystopian world A world where truth is important and lying can get you exiled.An interesting premise but a shorter format would have worked better for me.What if the truth was built on lies Absolutely loved this book and I do love this writer who writes dark and thought provoking dystopian novels 4.6 so five stars I read some of the criticism on details of the storyline, but h ll, loved it from start to finish Weird and out of this world Could this happen As usualto follow but I do recommend this out of the box book.Welcome to Golden State, where the worst crime you can commit is to lie, in a world where everything is recorded and no o What if the truth was built on lies Absolutely loved this book and I do love this writer who writes dark and thought provoking dystopian novels 4.6 so five stars I read some of...Ben H Winters writes a thrilling dystopian novel with a central mystery that puts the protagonist on a challenging road that questions everything he has ever believed in Golden State is a future version of California, a state where truth and objectivity is everything and to veer from this central tenet risks jail and exile There is no past, no history, no documents, only what is The concept of fiction no longer exists, and a novel is now understood to be a true history or truth, an interesti Ben H Winters writes a thrilling dystopian novel with a central mystery that puts the protagonist on a challenging road that questions everything he has ever believed in Golden State is a future version of California, a state where truth and objectivity is everything and to veer from this central tenet risks jail and exile There is no past, no history, no documents, only what is The concept of fiction no longer exists, and a novel is now understood to be a true history or truth, an interesting concept as storytelling is an integral part of what it is to be human With echoes of Big Brother in Orwell s 1984 and Atwood s The Handmaid s Tale, there is complete ...Can you handle the truth I am asking you, Tom Cruise This dystopian speculative noir beauty will draw you in, and bring to mind classics of its ilk 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 This book is set in an unknown time, in the state formerly known as California Something of great import has happened to cause the government to protect its citizens by enforcing a society based on TRUTH, or, as they call it, Objectively So.Sounds okay, but it isn t It s a militaristic, big brother esque world in which Can you handle the truth I am asking you, Tom Cruise This dystopian speculative noir beauty will draw you in, and bring to mind classics of its ilk 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 This book is set in an unknown time, in the state formerly known as California Something of great import has happened to cause the government to protect its citizens by enforcing a society based on TRUTH, or, as they call it, Objectively So.Sounds okay, but it isn t I...The BOTM picks are up This is not a drill.They are up and I chose this one This speculative fiction definitely sounds up my alley I have been craving stories like this lately.It s not clear when it happened or what happened, but it was BIG Now nobody talks about it, in fact everything before has been erased there are no documents, there is no known history This new world, in the same place as the old world, has rules that preclude lots of things and knowledge of the past is one of them But the biggest sin is to lie, to lie about anything To disobey this edict can result in serious jail time The place is called the Golden State and it s what used to be Californi It s not cle...Sometimes a book sits with you to the point that you can t stop thinking about it Golden State won t be for everyone, but it s one of those books that leave the reader thinking I like books that question reality and what reality means In today s world that simportant than ever With news being flung around at a ...Let it be known that I loved this novel It kept making me happier and happier Instead of the cranky nihilism I ve come to expect from dystopian novels, this novel instead evolves into a lovely fatalism I loved that love wins, if in an extreme sort of way But what a pretzel of a book At first it fooled me into thinking it was some kind of futuristic police procedural, a...This was really good I d never heard of this author before but was granted an ARC of this book from Netgalley It is a commentary on truth is there such a thing as absolute truth Can it be determined through a society where everything...Golden State is a prescient, devastating commentary on humanity s disintegrating attachment to reality and truth, expertly told through the prism of a police procedural, dystopian nightmare Winters has written a 1984 for the 21st century Not just a thrilling book, but an important one.

Golden State
  • English
  • 10 May 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 319 pages
  • 0316505412
  • Ben H. Winters
  • Golden State