For the first few months after the fall of Amaret, things were settling relatively fine. Turns out, though, rebels desperate for freedom don't usually think that far ahead. The people of Amaret had never known anything but totalitarian rule, and now, they don't know how to function without it. It has been three years since the Anomaly Revolt, and the anarchist expanse now called Idyll is reeling after a devastating wave of natural disasters brought on by the failure of climate control technology. With most buildings in ruins and nearly all factories long defunct, the inhabitants of lawless Idyll fight each other for resources, land and ownership of the few production facilities in good enough condition to be repaired and restored. In a way, it is the ultimate test of humans' cooperative skills: can the former Amaretians bring civilization back to this forsaken territory, or is Idyll doomed without a government?

In the dystopian world of the year 2208, something needs to change. The totalitarian government of Amaret, a sprawling country comprising all of former North and Central America, has discovered revolutionary techniques to screen for mental disorders in brain scans and DNA tests. There's only one problem with that -- instead of using this breakthrough for good, they've been rounding up and executing Amaretians with psychological conditions. No one has ever even considered fighting back. The latest batch of Anomalies won't accept their fate so easily, but escape is impossible... right? 47 is the first book in the Scopophobia series.