Solace Inc: Giving You the Time You'll Never Have...

By Jason Werbeloff

What if you could reprint yourself young, healthy, and brilliant?

In 2249, 3D printers are capable of scanning and printing humans. Life on Earth becomes overpopulated, bullet-paced, and stressed. Thankfully, Solace Inc has the solution: a pill which slows the user’s perception of time, and blots out the interminable busy-ness of the world.

But Anders, a quiet anarchist who has worked his way to the top of Solace Inc, has modified the latest batch of Solace Pills. And this modification is going to change everything...

The Solace Pill trilogy is hard-hitting dystopian sci-fi, with a philosophical twist.
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The Solace Pill series includes:
* Solace Inc
* Solace End
* Preparation 162
* The Solace Pill (Omnibus Edition)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason Werbeloff
• Release date: Oct 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311404435

Jason Werbeloff

Jason Werbeloff is a novelist and philosopher. He loves chocolate and his Labrador, Sunny. He's interested in the nature of social groups, personal identity, freedom, and the nature of the mind. His passion is translating philosophical debate around these topics into works of science fiction, while gorging himself on chocolate. **Amazon author page - http://amazon.com/author/jasonwerbeloff **Newsletter - subscribe to get 'The Solace Pill' free, as well as VIP access to Werbeloff's latest fiction: http://smarturl.it/werbeloff **Facebook and Twitter - follow Werbeloff for release date information on upcoming novels: http://www.facebook.com/solaceseries @JasonWerbeloff **Website - want to read about the philosophy behind the fiction? Take a look at: http://www.jasonwerbeloff.com **Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7340789

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SOLACE INC

Episode 1 of THE SOLACE PILL

Jason Werbeloff

Solace Inc

Copyright: Jason Keith Werbeloff

Smashwords Edition

First published: 2 October 2013

Smashwords edition: 24 October 2014

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Books in The Solace Pill trilogy

Solace Inc

Solace End

Preparation 162

Omnibus edition: The Solace Pill

Table of Contents

Prologue: 2249 AD

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

To be continued…

Acknowledgements

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

Prologue: 2249 AD

George knew it was an extravagance, but he booked the room anyway. He and Sandra hardly saw each other anymore. Once a week if that. She was working. He was working. And neither of them rented an apartment – what for, when reprinting regularly removed the need for sleep?

With hotel rates doubling over Solace holidays, hiring the room cost George almost a day’s salary per hour. What the hell, he’d thought as he used his overlay to book the room for a full afternoon. What’s the point of working so hard if we can’t enjoy it?

He eventually convinced Sandra to take the five hours leave, with the promise of a surprise. Neither of them earned very well. They barely had sufficient credits to afford regular nutrition reprints and an annual Rejuve print. So five hours leave was a big ask. But as Sandra printed into the room, the look on her face was worth it.

A bed! Sandra stroked the duvet, each fibre singing to her fingertips. Tique cotton, she said in hushed tones. And is that, she whispered, is that a real rose?

George waited quietly, swimming in his wife’s joy. Sandra wasn’t what most men considered beautiful. She had lumps and bumps where none of the new Bodifications had any. She had jowls and the occasional streak of gray in her hair. But right then, George wanted her more than the latest model hot off a reprint. For George, Sandra’s eyes held the cosmos.

An hour later, cotton sheets thoroughly ruffled, Sandra giggled. We forgot, she laughed, we forgot to take the Solace Pills. George looked over at the blister pack he’d brought for the occasion. Forgetting to take the pills meant that afternoon would be over twenty-times quicker. With the astronomical cost of the room, the absurdity of forgetting to take the pills was so great, and his wife’s mirth so infectious, that soon George was laughing too. They were laughing so hard, so loudly, that they didn’t notice when M asked whether there was something wrong. Tearing up, coughing and spluttering, they guffawed right through the emergency warnings that pinged their overlays. They laughed through the screams and the glass breaking around them. They laughed, laughed until the building lurched.

Uh, Sandra said, drying her eyes, what was –

The building shifted again, this time more violently. The walls vibrated, the ceiling juddered, and a fine dust covered them.

Before George could answer, Sandra leapt from the bed, and goggled at the sight from the window. Although the room was ten floors up, she could see the chaos below. Look! she said, pointing beneath them. George, look!

You should probably come away from the window, love, he said, trying to scan the numerous warnings flashing on his overlay.

My M, George, there’re children down there. They’re stuck in it … the mob. We have to do something. We have to go down –

The warnings say to stay indoors, George