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A tightly controlled future society reduces people to numbers and enforces conformity through propaganda, routines, and Freeman Camps that promise sanctioned pleasures. One citizen, TRH-247 (Thomas Robert Hendley), feels alienated, quits his job, seeks forbidden freedoms, and adopts a false identity; his rebellion earns banishment and he flees with a woman sentenced alongside him. The narrative follows their struggle for survival beyond the Organization's limits while exploring themes of identity, autonomy, state control, and the psychological costs of enforced homogeneity amid pervasive surveillance and manufactured joy.

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Title: The sentinel stars

a novel of the future

Author: Louis Charbonneau

Release date: June 12, 2023 [eBook #70962]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Bantam Books, Inc, 1963

Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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THE SENTINEL STARS

A NOVEL OF THE FUTURE BY
LOUIS CHARBONNEAU

[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

With love to
Helen and Bruce


TRH-247

That meant he was the two-hundred-and-forty-seventh citizen with the name Thomas Robert Hendley. His name, of course, was never used. The Organization found numbers more efficient than names.

Only, TRH-247 wasn't any other citizen. He was himself, different from anyone else, and he had to do something about it.

So he quit work; smuggled himself into the forbidden pleasures of a Freeman Camp; found boredom and nonidentity there, too; committed the ultimate rebellion, using a false number; and got the ultimate punishment—banishment.

He took the girl with him, for her crime was equal to his. The only problem he had to face now was—survival!

A PROPHETIC NOVEL OF AN EASILY FORECAST FUTURE WHEN A CITIZEN HAD TO FIT THE MACHINE—OR PERISH....


THE SENTINEL STARS
A Bantam Book / published November 1963

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-19052
© Copyright, 1963, by Louis Charbonneau.
Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada.

Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Inc. Its trade-mark, consisting of the words "Bantam Books" and the portrayal of a bantam, is registered in the United States Patent Office and in other countries. Marca Registrada. Patented in the United States of America. Bantam Books, Inc., 271 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y.


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