NEUROPA 77 (engl.)
The Year the Old Were Marked
For readers of Orwell, Atwood, and Bradbury.
After World War III, a new regime rises from the ruins of Europe.
Its name: NEUROPA.
Its logic: at seventy-seven, you are no longer a citizen. No pension. No rights. No medical care. No future.
Jonathan Goldt is a former history teacher in Brandenburg — the new capital of a continent reborn in ash and propaganda. He has six months before his 77th birthday. Six months before the state marks him, freezes his assets, and erases him.
When he witnesses a murder at a cemetery chapel and finds himself in the hands of the secret police, Jonathan realizes: the pension decree was only the beginning. The hunt for the old has already started.
A resistance is forming — fragile, hunted, human. And Jonathan must decide whether, at the end of his life, he is still willing to risk it.
„Brutally plausible. Disturbingly close.“
NEUROPA 77 draws on the full tradition of literary dystopia — Orwell’s surveillance state, Atwood’s totalitarian logic, Bradbury’s burning of memory — while telling a story that could not be more urgent: what happens when a society decides that some lives no longer matter.
NEUROPA 77
The Year the Old Were Marked
Published July 2025 / 335 pages
Paperback: $14.99 (€12.50) ISBN: 979-8287849115
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One day he would wake and realise he was dead—but that day had not yet come.