{"product_id":"propensity-ridley-park-9780971086982","title":"Propensity","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if behavioural control worked too well?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo riots. No rebellion. Just a flattening-of desire, of ambition, of will. Across homes, schools, and governments, people stop acting like themselves. Some forget how. Others forget why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe system wasn't designed to stay on this long. But now there's no off switch. And the researchers who built it? Most of them are zeroed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs one child begins to drift from baseline, an impossible question resurfaces: What does it mean to behave?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePropensity is a speculative novella from Ridley Park, author of Hemo Sapiens and Sustenance. Known for fiction that slips through institutional cracks and ethical ambiguity, Park returns with a chilling vision of artificial peace and cognitive collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a psychological dystopia without explosions, a story where silence spreads faster than violence, where systems behave better than the people inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tale of modulation, inertia, and the slow unravelling of human impulse-for readers who prefer their dystopias quiet and their horrors deeply plausible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ridley Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0971086982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780971086982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Microglyphics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Ridley Park","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997191385343,"sku":"9780971086982","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/propensity-ridley-park-9780971086982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}