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​In the near future, silence is survival.

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Obsolvance is a character-driven speculative novel set in a near-future surveillance culture where intervention begins early and quietly, under the language of care. Children who fall outside acceptable norms are identified, monitored, and, when necessary, absorbed into a state program designed to correct them.

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At its center is a boy taken into that system—and the mother left outside it.

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As he is evaluated, shaped, and gradually altered, she is forced to navigate a world that insists this is not loss, but improvement. The more the system refines him, the less recognizable he becomes, raising questions about what, exactly, is being saved—and what is being erased.

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Told from both sides of that divide, Obsolvance examines the psychological cost of constant measurement and correction, the quiet violence of being made legible, and the destabilizing grief of loving someone who is still alive, but no longer entirely the same.

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It is a novel about control disguised as care, about the limits of resistance within systems that promise safety, and about what remains when love cannot intervene.

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Perfect for readers who loved the haunting stillness of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, the generational tension of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, and the quiet dystopia of The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist.