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What if the erasure of your country didn't begin with war, but with paperwork, pipelines, and polite silence?
Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is a hauntingly plausible speculative novel told through a fractured archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, corrupted broadcasts, and the reflections of a vanished resistance archivist. Set in a near-future Canada quietly annexed under the banner of continental "unity," the story unfolds through recovered files curated by the last person who tried to remember out loud-Jason Butterfield.
What begins as a logistical deployment after Alberta's secession vote becomes something far darker: a euphemistic occupation, a nation rebranded, and a culture erased not through violence, but through narrative control. As Jason, a reservist turned memory hoarder, descends into the underground, he compiles stories from those silenced, displaced, or disappeared by the Unity regime. From blacklisted teachers and Indigenous resistance leaders to smuggled radio poets and burned librarians, their voices form a mosaic of truth that was nearly lost.
Years later, long after Jason's final signal flickers out in the north, Dr. Isabel Sanz of the North American Truth and Documentation Initiative reconstructs his archive. What emerges is not just a history, it's a warning.
For fans of The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and World War Z, Pejorative is a genre-blending novel of resistance, memory, and the quiet brutality of forgetting.
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
What if the erasure of your country didn't begin with war, but with paperwork, pipelines, and polite silence?
Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is a hauntingly plausible speculative novel told through a fractured archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, corrupted broadcasts, and the reflections of a vanished resistance archivist. Set in a near-future Canada quietly annexed under the banner of continental "unity," the story unfolds through recovered files curated by the last person who tried to remember out loud-Jason Butterfield.
What begins as a logistical deployment after Alberta's secession vote becomes something far darker: a euphemistic occupation, a nation rebranded, and a culture erased not through violence, but through narrative control. As Jason, a reservist turned memory hoarder, descends into the underground, he compiles stories from those silenced, displaced, or disappeared by the Unity regime. From blacklisted teachers and Indigenous resistance leaders to smuggled radio poets and burned librarians, their voices form a mosaic of truth that was nearly lost.
Years later, long after Jason's final signal flickers out in the north, Dr. Isabel Sanz of the North American Truth and Documentation Initiative reconstructs his archive. What emerges is not just a history, it's a warning.
For fans of The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and World War Z, Pejorative is a genre-blending novel of resistance, memory, and the quiet brutality of forgetting.