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The Instant of Now

Irving E. Cox

The Instant of Now

The Instant of Now

Irving E. Cox

Novels, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Revolution has a cost, and that price is measured in betrayal. Edward Dirrul knows this too well. A member of the underground fighting the Planetary Union, Eddie receives a desperate message from an unlikely source: a Vininese agent offering help for his captured friends, Glenna and Hurd. The catch is the message arrives in the enemy's language, and the offer of rescue might be the most dangerous trap of all. What follows is a desperate race through a society rotting from within, where the Secret Police hunt revolutionaries and the slick efficiency of the Vininese Confederacy offers a darker bargain. Eddie must decide whether his ideals survive when presented with a system that actually works, a utopia built on control rather than freedom. Written in 1953, this reads like a fever dream of its moment: the paranoid Cold War, the question of whether any revolution serves the people, the terrifying allure of order. Cox builds to a climax that demands: what do you owe to your cause when your cause might be wrong?

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