Below We Stand: My Dystopian Novel

"Below We Stand" by John L. Phillips is available at Amazon as a Kindle or in paperback.
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Join four friends on their quest as they learn the essential principles of embracing their humanity against all odds. Stuck in an unfulfilling, technologically repressive dystopia, they strike out together to find better lives and, in the process, help to save the world.

The story explores human relationships and unlocks our shared humanity as the main characters join together with others from diverse belief systems to stand against a fictional but recognizable growing global trend toward tyranny. Together, they confront the post-pandemic Contagion, AI run amok, transhuman cultists, and a global despot with roots reaching back into ancient days. Below We Stand calls for humans to see beyond our historic sectarianism and unite against a proposed human replacement species. The book also has a strong spiritual element as it calls on the mysterious