May 2013
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CITIZEN ZERO eBook: Mark Cantrell: Amazon.co.uk:... →
CITIZEN ZERO eBook: Mark Cantrell: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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CITIZEN ZERO: Mark Cantrell: Amazon.com: Kindle... →
CITIZEN ZERO: Mark Cantrell: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
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Smashwords — Citizen Zero — A book by Mark... →
A science fiction thriller in the dystopian tradition.
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Citizen Zero →
Read a sample or download Citizen Zero by Mark Cantrell with iBooks.
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Citizen Zero by Mark Cantrell:: Reader Store →
JobNet was supposed to usher in a better life for unemployed David Mills; instead it plunges him into a bitter struggle for survival when he is caught in the midst of a political conspiracy that pushes Britain to the brink of civil war… A gripping political thriller, Citizen Zero presents a dystopian glimpse of a broken future born in an age of austerity… The future is what we make...
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Citizen Zero →
After austerity came prosperity and stability, but it was bought at a terrible price… In a surveillance society blind where it matters most, a deadly conspiracy is ready to strike… A dictatorial… read more at Kobo.
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CITIZEN ZERO By Mark Cantrell →
A hard-hitting sci-fi thriller in the dystopian tradition
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Protest treated as anti-social behaviour →
Powers given to the police to deal with anti-social behaviour are increasingly being used to gather information on participants in political protest. Section 50 of the Police Reform Act gives polic…
More from the living history to Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Jobseekers made to carry out bogus psychometric... →
Unemployed people are told they risk losing benefits if they fail to carry out meaningless questionnaire
More from the living history to Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Unicef: British children facing bleaker future... →
Children’s charity says situation facing young people in UK is expected to worsen as cuts threaten to ‘sideline’ a generation
From the living history to Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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New figures suggest Scottish CCTV is spiralling... →
More from the living ‘history’ to Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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How The Government Is Lying About Fighting The... →
Exclusive: The Tories said they would end the database state, but TechWeek finds ministers like Jeremy Hunt aredoing the opposite
From the real life history to the novel Citizen Zero. Find out more at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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This is how people on out-of-work benefits... →
Ruth Patrick: The cuts get personal: Those actually experiencing welfare changes are not being heard, and this leads to policy based on incorrect assumptions
From the living history of Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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This Tory-led assault on welfare is battering... →
Peter Lazenby: People are already going hungry thanks to coalition cuts, and the greatest deprivation is in Scotland and northern England
From the real life ‘prequel’ to my novel Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
April 2013
11 posts
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Poor forced to rely on food stamps... →
“Nexus 40,” the legend read. Beneath, printed on the scratched plastic:
UK Benefits & Welfare Plc
– A Ministry for Human Resources Company –
working for you, so you can too
It really was a hateful piece of plastic. Even now the chip signalled his location to the JobMart’s city computer. Depending on traffic down the net, some operator could be reading the data this...
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Thousands of jobless rely on foodbanks to eat... →
From the ‘real life prequel’ to CITIZEN ZERO. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Even Thatcher wouldn't have gone this far... →
More from the real life prequel to CITIZEN ZERO. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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UK welfare reform helps create a Big Brother... →
From the real-life prequel of the novel CITIZEN ZERO. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Britons are losing rights as a police state is... →
From the real-life prequel to the novel CITIZEN ZERO.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Fortress Britain is building insecurity... →
From the real-life backstory to the novel CITIZEN ZERO.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Digital elite presents a bleak vision of the... →
More from the ‘living history’ to CITIZEN ZERO. Courtesy of the New Statesman.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Liberal propaganda and the new digital slavery... →
“Propaganda always wins if you let it.” Courtesy of John Pilger in the New Stateman
From the backstory to the novel CITIZEN ZERO. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Majority of British children soon to be living... →
From the ‘making of the zeros’, the ‘living prequel’ to the novel CITIZEN ZERO. Courtesy of The Independent newspaper.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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A dangerous use of police force to quell... →
From the ‘living prequel’ of the novel CITIZEN ZERO, courtesy of The Guardian newspaper.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
BLOG - Mark Cantrell, Author: Why we're living the... →
Every novel has a ‘backstory’, an idea of what came before the opening page; the dystopian science fiction thriller Citizen Zero is no different, only we appear to be living through its history right now. That’s why, explains Mark Cantrell, he’s taken to tweeting links to news and current affairs stories - they show the ‘real life prequel’ unfolding all around...
March 2013
6 posts
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Amazon's 'droids' - a portent of future British... →
From the backstory to Citizen Zero. Read more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk and find out how to get a FREE copy this week.
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Tories could declare war on unions with new... →
More from Citizen Zero’s ‘living prequel’. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk
Tenants face rising arrears and homelessness... →
From the real life backstory to Citizen Zero - ‘how they made the underclass known as zeros’. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk
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Treat the low-paid like criminals, and hinder... →
All part of the process of creating an oppressive state. From the ‘real life history’ of the novel Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel (and details of a FREE offer) at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk
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Clearing the poorest families out of London... →
Of, how they made the underclass known as ‘zeros’ depicted in the novel Citizen Zero. Find out more at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk
Note: This week (3-9 March) the novel is FREE from Smashwords. Coupon code and link on my website.
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You can't get a better deal than free
Read An eBook Week (3-9 March 2013)
My work is on exclusive offer through Smashwords all this week to mark Read An eBook Week.
You can’t get a better deal than FREE, so now’s the time to add my fiction and poetry titles to your digital library.
The week runs from 3-9 March. Just visit Smashwords and use code RW100 at the checkout to download my works without charge.
My novel CITIZEN ZERO;...
February 2013
8 posts
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A terrifying vision of the future...
A science fiction thriller in the dystopian tradition, CITIZEN ZERO presents a devastating vision of a society broken by austerity and inequality. Blending the stark social conscience of ‘The Boys From The Blackstuff’, the millennial anarcho-chic of ‘The Matrix’, and the uncompromising force of ‘V for Vendetta’, CITIZEN ZERO portrays a future Britain that’s taking shape today… Find...
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Building tomorrow's surveillance state today... →
The making of Citizen Zero…
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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The Age of Entitlement, the super-rich want it... →
More form the ‘living history’ to Citizen Zero.
Find out more at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Building the shadow state of private interests... →
More from Citizen Zero’s ‘living prequel’.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Language is a weapon used to criminalise the... →
More from Citizen Zero’s ‘living prequel’ courtesy of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation…
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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The growing wealth gap is unsustainable... →
More from the ‘living prequel’ to Citizen Zero.
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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When the rich are born to rule... →
More from the ‘backstory’ to Citizen Zero, courtesy of George Monbiot and the Guardian…
Find out more about my novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Government surveillance undermines trust... →
A little something from Citizen Zero’s ‘backstory’…
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
January 2013
6 posts
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Connect with Citizen Zero over on Facebook... →
Read more about the novel on my website: http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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In a Britain bitterly divided between rich and... →
The scene was set for Citizen Zero. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Welfare reform played a crucial role in... →
From Citizen Zero’s ‘living backstory’. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Criminalising the unemployed and the poor, that's... →
From Citizen Zero’s ‘living prequel’. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Vampire Vengeance In Deadly Night Shade
RELEASE NOTES
DEADLY NIGHT SHADE
In the dead of night,
what does a vampire fear?
Find out in this digital short by Mark Cantrell
STOKE-ON-TRENT, 21-Jan-13: A vampire tale with a chilling twist, Deadly Night Shade is the first of a series of digital shorts selected from the anthology ISOLATION SPACE for standalone publication.
The atmospheric and action-packed short story is now available from...
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Discover the world of Citizen Zero
Thirty years in the making - Citizen Zero - discover a world made out of welfare reform and police state surveillance: http://bit.ly/PvFP9o
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November 2012
5 posts
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While people were hating the poor, corporations... →
From Citizen Zero’s living backstory. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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How to manufacture a culture of fear and... →
From Citizen Zero’s real-;ofe backstory. Find out more about the hard-hitting dystopian thriller at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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More and more Britons struggle to afford food... →
From Citizen Zero’s ‘living backstory’. Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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"We're all in this together." Government cuts to... →
From the ‘real life prequel’ to the novel Citizen Zero. This might be called ‘the making of the zeros’ - or how a criminalised underclass was created…
Find out more about the novel at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
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Living under surveillance: a sign of things to... →
From the ‘real life prequel’ to the novel Citizen Zero. Find out more at http://www.markcantrell.co.uk/citizen-zero
