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Oz Protocol - Book 3: The Thinning Protocol, The

2026
Author(s):
Rudd, Simon
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Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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People are disappearing from the settlement. Not many. Not all at once. Seventeen over three weeks — cots found empty, no note, no sign of struggle. Just gone. And the people who vanish share one thing: they were the ones who hadn't yet decided whether waking up in the real world was something they were glad about. Dorothy Gale has spent three months trying to build something from the wreckage of what she freed. Thirty thousand people pulled from simulated sleep into a Kansas that doesn't have enough of anything except silence. Now someone — or something — is watching the settlement closely enough to identify the ambivalent and take them. The signal leads to a community in a low valley: eleven years old, self-governing, transparent, and genuinely good. It has gardens and councils and a water system built by people who decided to stay. It also has a protocol. The Thinning Protocol selects people who aren't sure they want to be in the real world and offers them a way back into simulation. Voluntary. Compassionate. Carefully reasoned.

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