The Body Tax: A Novelette
About this audiobook
Our government's most heinous crimes are the ones we never question.
In a future society where citizens pay a quarterly "body tax" by serving as mindless automatons under the watchful eye of an all-seeing police state, a young woman discovers that she's unexpectedly pregnant after completing her term of servitude. Determined to preserve her freedom and the life of her unborn child, she becomes a fugitive, risking everything to uncover the dark secrets that her government is hiding from the public.
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About the author
Joe Vasicek fell in love with science fiction and fantasy when he read The Neverending Story as a child. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Genesis Earth, Gunslinger to the Stars, The Sword Keeper, and the Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic at Brigham Young University and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus Mountains. He lives in Utah with his wife, daughter, and two apple trees.
