Published 31 March 2025
Set in a near-future climate-flooded England, divided into three countries.
Kai, the charismatic leader of the tech-elite, entices the public with cutting-edge technology and a seemingly benevolent vision for the world.
As part of the Resist and Regain movement, Beth and Naomi confront him head-on.
Challenging his child experimentation to accelerate evolution and his attempts to control the government, they risk everything for a more equal and transparent society.
Can they stop Kai before it’s too late?
Can Beth live with the suffering her activism will cause her family?
Praise…
“Now that we’ve lived into the future that cyberpunk projected, we urgently need to fight our way out. This book imagines and encourages that fight.” Ken MacLeod, multi-award winning author.
“A frighteningly credible near-future dystopia that is as convincing as it is disturbing, We Are Not Anonymous unfolds with cinematic scale and urgency.” Ewan Morrison, award winning author and essayist.
“An intellectually arresting, thought-provoking work of creative futurism that drives our current politics and technology to their magical — and logical — extremes.” Ana Sun, author.
“Stephen Oram combines gripping storytelling with scientific literacy and original SF. Instead of rearranging tropes he comes up with new ideas.” Geoff Ryman, multi-award-winning author of HIM.
“Overall, ‘We Are Not Anonymous’ should be a must-read for anyone interested in how the future might turn out. It has warnings about the dangers but some solutions, too.” SFCrowsnest.
“The resourcefulness both of the resistance activists and of those they resist is gripping, as is the thrusting and often clever parrying that goes on between those in power and those who seek to keep them accountable.” Susan Maxwell, BSFA Review (British Science Fiction Association).
“Furthermore, it could be said that the genre of the book itself—which the author described at the talk at Roehampton Library as neither utopian nor dystopian, but somewhere in the middle—implies a writing brimming with hope, however much it also foregrounds ethical ambiguities. This is true in the way the novel shows, by the end, how resistance is alive, but its purity becomes somewhat compromised in the process.” Kevin W Mollin, Librarian at Roehampton Library.
“A gripping near future yarn, We Are Not Anonymous is an inspiring story for those who believe that courage can outmatch control.” Eva Pascoe, co-founder of digital futures think tank, Cybersalon.