The Base: A Future Without Masters Requires Humans Who Refuse to Become Functionaries

The Base: A Future Without Masters Requires Humans Who Refuse to Become Functionaries

Author: Heather Stroud
Publisher: Heather Stroud 
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9798258673589
Weight: 175 g
Pages: 164 pp
Year: 2026
Price: RM33

Set around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus the novel examines complicity without intent, surveillance as abstraction without responsibility, and the moral injury that arises when private conscience collides with institutional power. The novel centres around Zoe, an eighteen year old in her political awakening and her father Rowan, a senior RAF intelligence analyst whose work in pattern analysis and surveillance becomes indirectly linked to lethal outcomes in Gaza. As Zoe begins to connect personal loss with the operations at the base, the novel traces the fracture of a family under the pressure of a military Al system.