The Distance Office by Arthur Iverson (.ePUB)
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The Distance Office by Arthur Iverson
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Overview: In Marrow, distance is more than geography. The city’s routes contract around people who can predict one another—and lengthen when certainty fails.
When route examiner Iona Vale answers a call to an apartment hallway, she finds a murdered woman only thirteen feet away. Her gauge reads 73.9 miles.
The impossible measurement should be a technical anomaly. Instead, it leads to a missing relief worker, an altered access record, and a chain of decisions reaching into the Distance Office itself. Worse, the evidence keeps circling Asa, the man Iona knows well enough to reach—and perhaps not well enough to trust.
As freezing rain closes roads and Marrow’s emergency network begins to buckle, Iona must discover how certainty was manufactured, who benefited from it, and what the city has mistaken for safety. Every answer shortens one route and closes another. To uncover the truth, she may have to dismantle the system that has defined her life—and accept that loving someone is not the same as knowing what they will do.
The Distance Office is a speculative mystery about intimacy, institutional power, and the dangerous comfort of believing people can be made predictable.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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