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SYSTEM-ONE
Goooood morning Maron City!
Truth, Freedom and Prosperity, the cornerstones of our global utopian authority, System-One, which will bless you with what you deserve.
Truth is important to the journalist, Megan Stone,
whose curiosity always gets the better of her.
She, like most of mankind who are integrated into
System-One, lives under System-One’s
prosperous freedoms, she worships our saviour,
System-One, and she is blessed with prosperity
in return. However, not all accept System-One’s
gifts, such as the terrorist organisations known
as Pentecost and The Intelligence, who are
hellbent on destroying System-One’s glorious
utopia.
Megan must face the changing tides of her faith
when she is dragged into a conspiracy that aims
to unravel everything she knows about
System-One and her way of life.
George Orwell’s 1984 meets Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium in a gripping narrative combining action, romance and adventure, with a looming dread of authoritarianism.
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But remember, the System is your Truth, the System is your Freedom, the System is your Prosperity.
As after all…
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You deserve it.
Where to Buy?
The SYSTEM-ONE novel should be available to buy on various book stores online, if you fail to find it on AMAZON or other book stores please contact the author at: jmcutliffe.author@gmail.com.
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Prices vary between regions.
The Process
2018
2020
2022 - 2023
2024
2025
The first ideas for SYSTEM-ONE begin developing, focusing on SYSTEM-ONE being a series of novels. Various ideas, characters, worldbuilding ideas, and other notes have been completely altered or discarded.
Later that year JMC begins writing the first draft of the novel series.
JMC finishes the novel series of SYSTEM-ONE and attempts to get them traditionally published, but no one would take the series due to its size, length, and unknown author.
JMC feels that it is time to get the story of SYSTEM-ONE out into the wider world. So, at the start of 2023 JMC begins working on the SYSTEM-ONE ARG, which includes the website, and various videos on his YouTube channel.
Phase 1 of the ARG is released and received well. However, JMC, who used AI for various visuals and audible aspects of the production, decides not to include any AI going into 2025.
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JMC rewrites various aspects of the novel series, he decides to split the novel series from 3 novels into 6 shorter novels. He rewrites the first novel, and prepares it for self-publication.
JMC self-teaches himself BLENDER (a 3D animation software) to create various aspects for Phase 2 of the ARG.
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JMC prepares the first novel to be self-published.
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The first novel was published on the 25th of November, 2025