HellSans – An innovative, edgy near-future dystopian thriller (Paperback)

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In a near future Britain, HellSans is more than a typeface. Mandated by the state and embedded in every public surface, it is a tool of compliance, inducing calm and pleasure in most of the population. For a small minority, exposure brings sickness. These HellSans Allergic are pushed out of sight, forced into street living or confined to a ghetto on the city’s edge.

Jane Ward begins the novel at the centre of this system. As a powerful tech executive, she profits from the culture HellSans has helped create. When she develops the allergy herself, her status collapses with frightening speed. Stripped of protection and influence, she is thrust into the world she once ignored.

Her survival depends on Dr Icho Smith, a scientist who has created a possible cure and is now hunted from all sides. HellSans explores control, complicity, and resistance, asking how easily comfort becomes obedience, and what it takes to see clearly once the system turns against you.