Idolatry de Aditya Sudarshan

Idolatry

Aditya Sudarshan

Idolatry, set in Mumbai in the near future, is about a novel technology, Shrine Tech, which enables everyone to worship a god of their own preference. The story follows a disaffected young actor, who is hired as a marketing rep by the company that owns the Tech. It is run by a man calling himself Mister Happy Maker. Soon, the young actor is plunged into the crucible of a society altering in strange and insane ways, in which ordinary individuals (a building society secretary, an indie film-maker, an aged priest, among others) are living their dreams, nightmarishly. Featuring cover art by Broci.
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Idolatry is apocalyptic fiction, set in the city of Mumbai in the near future. It is a dreary, anarchic time. Governments and their goals have receded into insignificance. Only the play of money and appetites goes on unthinkingly with a vast profit-making company at the helm, whose core business is advertising.
Society has been riven through by petty wars and social media-driven factions. Now, in the wake of social media, the time is ripe for a new technology. It is called Shrine Tech; a device which enables every user to construct and worship a tailor-made God of their own preference.
We follow a twenty year old unemployed actor, named Saionton, who is hired as a marketing rep by the company which owns Shrine Tech (and a great deal else besides), and has piloted it in India. Saionton is given a list of names of aggrieved Shrine Tech users, apparently to placate. He soon discovers that these individuals (the secretary of an apartment building, an indie film-maker, a Catholic priest, a restaurant owner, and a film-star’s ex-boyfriend) are each dreaming up fantastic reprisals against the company and its boss, an advertising executive who calls himself Mister Happy Maker.
Meanwhile, Happy Maker is interested in ‘problem-solving’ the phenomena of their rage, by further finessing Shrine Tech, to achieve a more and more perfect personal and social exaltation. An enormous cult is in the making. Saionton has the choice of absorbing himself into Happy Maker’s plans, or getting out- if he can. But he isn’t unique. The same choice presents itself to everybody else, including Mandy, a broken-hearted woman in search of an identity, and Joachim, a priest whose faith is all too brittle.
Idolatry plunges the reader into the crucible of a society altering in strange and insane ways, in which a handful of (themselves disaffected and troubled) persons must learn to care as never before.
Featuring cover art by Broci.

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"Poignant, fascinating, and wholly unique. Most of all, Sudarshan’s voice shines throughout. If you’re looking for a fresh take on the speculative genre with a heavy religious twist, Idolatry is the book for you!"

"Aditya Sudarshan has written a book that profoundly connects faith and technology."

"Thought-provoking... an educational and philosophical adventure into a weird world!"

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