num_pages: 319
description: Lazlo Ratesic is 54 a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service from a family of law enforcement and in a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else. This is how Laz must by law introduce himself lest he fail to disclose his true purpose or nature and by doing so be guilty of a lie.Laz is a resident of The Golden State a nation resembling California where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance increasingly impossible. There surrounded by the high walls of compulsory truth-telling knowingly contradicting the truth--the Objectively So--is the greatest possible crime. Stopping those crimes punishing them is Laz's job. In its service he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths--to speculate on what might have happened in the commission of a crime.But the Golden State is far less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor verify and enforce the Objectively So requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance recording and record-keeping. And when those in control of the truth twist it for nefarious means the Speculators may be the only ones with the power to fight back.
language: English
title: Golden State
publisher: Mulholland Books