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MindQuest Regime
Young Adult Novel
70,000 words
Status: Manuscript ready
IAK 902 lives in the Regime, a completely militarized society where children are given a name-rank at birth. Everything is regulated and controlled by the Regime, even what subjects may be studied by scientists. As a university student, IAK has a passion to understand how people's minds work. He jumps at the chance to experiment in mental telepathy with NOLAD, one of his professors, even though it's an illegal Off Limits subject. IAK must keep this secret, even from his girlfriend, JAN, who is the NOLAD's daughter. JAN finds out about their experiments and breaks up with IAK for keeping such a secret from her. Telepathy experiments got her mother killed years before.
The secret police arrest IAK and the professor for their illegal studies. They are tried, Regime style, where their guilt is presumed and not contested. MALDARDREDEX, The head of the secret police is NOLAD's old rival for JAN's mother and takes revenge on NOLAD, getting his puppet judge, MERODAK to condemn the would-be telepaths to death in his own illegal experiment. They try to resist the execution telepathically but two of them die anyway. Somehow the it doesn't kill IAK. Instead it enables him to read anyone else's thoughts and to move objects with his mind.
Telepathic power is more a curse than a blessing. Now IAK can enter anyone's mind but the experience is so alien it's repulsive, so he doesn't dare enter the mind of his now-estranged girlfriend JAN, the one person he most wanted to understand so he can win back her affections.
To make matters worse, MALDARDREDEX, head of the secret police wants JAN for himself because she resembles her mother, even though he was responsible for her arrest and death years before. IAK must risk his life to save JAN from that evil man's sick fantasy. Now as escaped fugitives, telepathy may be the only weapon IAK can use to get himself and JAN, to safety. |
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