Chipless

"An engaging storyline that excels in unexpected twists and turns." D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

What if humanity eliminated suffering… by eliminating free will? -- A hard-to-put-down novel from the award-winning author of PARALLELS.

In the City, happiness is mandatory.

Every citizen carries a neural chip designed to eliminate fear, conflict, aggression, and pain. War is gone. Crime no longer exists. Anxiety has become a relic of the past.

Nobody questions the system.

Nobody rebels.

Nobody even wants to.

Until Kal begins to remember.

Plagued by fragments of forbidden memories and disturbing visions that should not exist, Kal starts uncovering cracks beneath the City's perfect surface. Soon he finds himself hunted by the authorities, pursued by forces he barely understands, and forced into contact with dangerous outsiders who claim the chips were never designed to protect humanity.

They were designed to control it.

Beyond the walls of the City lies a brutal reality of surveillance, betrayal, engineered emotions, and secrets powerful enough to destroy civilization itself. But the deeper Kal digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes:

Humanity may already have surrendered the very thing that makes it human.

CHIPLESS is a dark, fast-paced dystopian sci-fi thriller about free will, identity, and the terrifying cost of engineered happiness.

Perfect for readers of 1984, Brave New World, The Hunger Games, and Black Mirror.