A snapshot
It is 2045. The Union of the Nations of Europe’s first President is being inaugurated, completing a process that began with his radical theory of constitutional evolution almost two decades earlier.
What drove thirty independent countries to pool their sovereignty?
How was the U.N.E. built?
And what is the fate of the United Kingdom in this transfigured landscape?
Travel through time and surf waves of speculation as we journey between the 2020s and 2050 to roam a post-Covid, post-Brexit landscape.
The story’s foundation
Édouard de Rouffignac is an academic historian until, one day, a book arrives that changes everything.
It leads him to develop a radical theory of constitutional evolution: nation states inevitably merge as their populations grow and the challenges they face become increasingly insoluble without joining together.
He recognises that this means, in particular, the inevitability of a formal union of the nations of Europe and, at great personal cost, becomes a pivotal player in its realisation.
The novel's style
U.N.E. – a future history is fiction. It’s a flight of fancy, an imagined future masquerading as part-faux history book, part-novel of ideas, and part-’howdunit’.
You know the end at the beginning. But can you envision the gentle unfolding of the means to get there?
U.N.E is not dystopian, like 1984 or Brave New World. On the contrary, it sets out an optimistic future, albeit one secured after a hard road, much rutted by rotten leadership, yet eventually smoothed by vision and tenacity.
It allows us to dream of a new dawn … and sets out our long voyage across an ocean of time that contextualises what currently seems an endless night.
And here is the narrative timeline we follow ….
You know the end at the beginning. But can you envision the gentle unfolding of the means to get there?
U.N.E is not dystopian, like 1984 or Brave New World. On the contrary, it sets out an optimistic future, albeit one secured after a hard road, much rutted by rotten leadership, yet eventually smoothed by vision and tenacity.
It allows us to dream of a new dawn … and sets out our long voyage across an ocean of time that contextualises what currently seems an endless night.
And here is the narrative timeline we follow ….