Security Directorate Dossiers volume 2 (PAPERBACK)

INTRODUCTION

It seems to me, my Security Directorate universe is the gift that just keeps giving.

Not for its citizens, of course, but for me who writes, and you who read the stories.

In the first volume’s introduction, I explained the idea came out of World War II documentaries and the Syrian Civil War (not that it’s over).

And I explained a little behind the inspiration for a Genomics Bureau that literally controls births, deaths and marriages, and an Office of Public En-lightenment to interpret the truth for its citizens.

I still find the potential applications of eugenics, and the complementary policies of genocide and breeding control ghoulishly fascinating.

Not to mention the recent attempts by certain governments to control the truth, so an Office of Enlightenment looks like a good way for a fascist state to buy itself the time and space to grow and develop as a country.

Especially with departments for internal, as well as external truths.

All in all, regardless of who’s in charge, a fair amount of population control requires having the right people in the right places to ensure compli-ance.

Not to mention a casually ruthless disregard for its citizens.

I worry a little that makes me some kind of egregious monster.

But when I read books by other authors in simi-lar veins, I’m reassured we all need these fictions to help us see where such policies could end up.

After all, we writers are good at following these thoughts to their logical conclusions.

So, here are some more speculative stories about life in the Security Directorate.

This time, we’re looking more at the mid-level officers who undertake this work. The perils of get-ting up and going to work every day.

Their choices, for better or worse, and how the consequences play out.

• In Life in the Security Directorate, Eve strug-gles to come to terms with life in the Directorate, and finds her own way out.
• While Honoris Virilis Respectu shows Major General John Simm struggling with the difference between his version of the truth and the Director General’s.
• Potentially, Captain Maeryn Prothero is on the wrong side of the Directorate in Calling it a Day.
• Moving on, in Veni Vidi Vici, Second Lieu-tenant Cora Meadows must make a one woman as-sault on her own Exploratorem Station.
• And finally, in Pursuit of Power, Captain Tara Cline pursues a serial killer with a dirty secret.

Every day I sit down after tea and watch the tv news. The international reports show me there’s a lot of Security Directorate-like activity going on out there.

In some cases, it’s a little more frightening than I’ve imagined up to now.

I look forward to seeing how this affects the Se-curity Directorate, and I hope you do too.

Alexandria Blaelock
Melbourne, Australia
November 2023

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