Skleník – Straczynski J. Michael (2024)

The Greenhouse is an uncompromising, fast-paced sci-fi novel about the decisions we face and the consequences we must confront. When Riley Diaz is imprisoned under a new mysterious defense law, she finds herself in one of the rapidly growing American recovery centers – a facility modeled after psychiatric hospitals – where she is to undergo mandatory re-education. The ASO program employs underhanded strategies to break dissidents, such as forced therapy, involuntary medication, solitary confinement, limited food rations, and more. Submit, and you are free. Resist, and... Isolated, Riley declares war on lies and manipulation, striving to destroy the ASO program and its white-coated workers. Although she is isolated and her fellow inmates are not particularly fond of her, she ultimately earns their trust and forms a strong bond with a mysterious patient known only as Frankenstein, who is as enigmatic as his namesake. At the beginning of the destruction of an unjust system, sometimes there is only one person willing to stand up and say 'no' – even when they feel they cannot rise. And Riley Diaz is ready to break the Greenhouse at any cost. Acclaimed American writer, screenwriter, and producer J. Michael Straczynski takes...