Eclipse Corona — John Shirley

IT COULDN'T HAPPENED AGAIN
Not in your lifetime, you say. Not in this, the first quarter of the 21st century.
If that's what you think, you'd better take another look around.
Media manipulation has become mind control … and mind control, an art. Secret treaties have been made and conspiracies laid in back rooms, on the Internet, and in secret laboratories. The power of the Second Alliance has coalesced, and terrorism institutionalized. New concentration camps bring “Ethnic Cleansing” to a terrifying intensity…
Your only hope is the New Resistance. People like
Dan Torrence and his fellow urban warriors, on Earth
Claire Rimpler on the L5 colony, FirStep
The damaged visionary, Smoke
And Alouette a precocious, cyber-jacked little girl on the cutting edge of a strange new frontier of human collective-consciousness … the Enthelechy…
Regular people bound together by the truth and a single purpose: to keep this secret darkness from becoming mankind's Total Eclipse … or to die trying…