Normal by Warren Ellis
Thinking about the future, and what a scary place it can be, can be enough to drive you crazy. Really certifiably crazy. These people are all housed together at Normal Head, an asylum set up by the employers of the strategic forecasters and foresight strategists in hopes that their brains will start to work for them again. Adam Dearden has just been admitted to Normal. But normal is not what he finds there…
A slim (only 148 pages) book this novella will stay with you long after you close the last page. It’s an odd one, one that makes you think, and makes you ponder some of the futures on its pages. If you suffer from even miniscule amounts of paranoia about what the future may hold, do not read this book. Adam’s paranoia is contagious, and let’s face it, it’s not paranoia if they are really out to get you.