T.R. Wren · A series in five books
A Map of Other Laws
Every perfect country has a price. One man is keeping the account.
A complete five-book series of literary speculative fiction.
Book One out now. Books Two to Five are in final revision and proofreading, and all five are out by New Year's Day 2027.
Out now
Twenty countries. One unclassifiable man. Every law kept too well.
A Map of Other Laws: The Complete Pentalogy: all five books in one ebook, . Coming 1 Jan 2027
The release calendar
Book One out now. Books Two to Five are in final revision and proofreading, and all five are out by New Year's Day 2027.
The series
Every perfect country has a price. One man is keeping the account.
A former keeper of accounts is carried, without warning or consent, from one country to the next. Every one of them should not exist.
Each was founded after a catastrophe, on one humane promise. No one will be treated arbitrarily. No one will suffer alone. No one will be punished for an honest mistake. No one will be broken by bad news. Most of us would sign every one. And each country keeps its promise past the point where keeping it begins to cost, then charges that cost to someone who cannot refuse.
The scales cannot weigh him. The census cannot describe him. The courts enter his silence as evidence. Every country must decide what he is, and he must decide what he owes it, before the ground gives way and carries him on.
Twenty countries across five books. A love story told in wound clocks and rain gauges. A political education told in bread prices and border stamps. And a reckoning with the oldest question any society asks: when a rule is built to protect people, who pays for the people it was never built to see?
A Map of Other Laws is a complete five-book series of literary speculative fiction. All five books are out by New Year's Day 2027.
From the Notebook
When Fairness Becomes Arithmetic
When a child's bread comes out two grains wrong and nobody in the room is cruel, where does the remainder go?
The Right to a Closed Door
In a city that abolished solitude out of love, a stranger starts counting how often he is touched. A case for the door that shuts.
The Price of a Question
In the Province of Licensed Questions, a deep question is paid for with one of your own certainties. Which ones would you still ask?
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