Penal Cluster
Penal Cluster
Earth discovered telepathy and responded with terror. In this not-so-distant future, anyone possessing the psychic ability to read minds is classified a psychodeviant, arrested, and exiled to a barren asteroid fifty million miles away. There they remain, chained and comatose, spinning through the void forever, a species that learned to fear its own mind. But who hunts these so-called deviants? The Psychodeviant Police, a secretive organization armed with technology designed to detect telepathic activity. Their leader, Verral, has a flawless record. He is trusted, efficient, and utterly devoted to protecting humanity from the mental threat. Or so it seems. When Verral is assigned a routine identification job, something shifts. The gears of suspicion begin to turn, and a darker question emerges: what happens when the hunters realize one of their own has been the hunted all along? Garrett builds this paranoid world with sharp, economical prose, asking whether the real monster is the mind reader or the society so frightened of thought that it would chain its own citizens to the stars.
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