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The Panopticon Series Goes Open - Utopia Five Will Become Free To Read

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Radically Open "persuasive possible future history of how climate change, surveillance and society could play out for us over the next 40 years, and a great detective page-turner as well."  - Amazon review Utopia Five After six years, I have finally decided to open my Panopticon scifi series under a creative commons license friendly to the 'bots. (BY-NC) On September 12th 2025, Utopia Five, the first of the Panopticon series, gets a CC release . The 9 book series will conclude with the finale, Shadow Earth, which will be released in early 2026. Give my novels away for free? Have I lost my mind? Show Me The Money The Panopticon series is a set of scifi/clifi/solarpunk mysteries and thrillers based in an alternative history near-future where the world becomes radically open - a panopticon. "an unexpectedly deep and conceptual sci-fi techno thriller" - Amazon review Utopia Five It has sold thousands of copies on Amazon  and I had always one day hoped to make it ava...