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They Called It Love Anyway
Three connected files follow the long reach of violence through families, intimate relationships, and the human need to call cruelty love.
JOHN THOMAS DONNELLYLiterary fiction, suspense, crime and alternate history.
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Books
The Transmission Era
America could hear the world. It was not permitted to watch it move.
By March 1963, most American homes have no legal moving-image receiver. They have certified sound. The Aldridge Act permits moving images in approved public rooms while keeping them out of the private home.
Book One: The Room is available now. Book Two: The Cut is in development and is not currently for sale.
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Behind the books
The Transmission Era
Why television was prohibited
Aldridge does not simply ban a device. It regulates privacy, witness and the right to remember without permission.
Studio 6
Music, ownership and the work itself
Room 6 does not explain art. It refuses to let theft sound exactly like creation.
Set Pieces
Four stories, four voices
Sport, composition, travel and surveillance create four different kinds of pressure.
About
John Thomas Donnelly
John Thomas Donnelly is an Irish-Canadian writer of literary fiction, crime, suspense and alternate history. His stories place ordinary people inside extraordinary events—from murder and family betrayal to secret government programs, forbidden television, music, aviation and forgotten corners of history.
Before emigrating to Canada, Donnelly served in the Irish military. He lives in Richmond, British Columbia, with his wife. They have two daughters.
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Topics: literary fiction, alternate history, music, memory, authority, loyalty, short fiction and independent publishing.
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