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In a future Manhattan reserved for the ultra-rich, an Indigenous hacktivist takes on an oligarchic empire built on wealth, faith, and manufactured truth
Manhattan has become an island for the ultra-rich. Under Amon Oberman, the city is sealed off as a private paradise for the Blessed, where fortunes grow without restraint and every appetite is indulged. Beneath them, an obedient class of Patriots works, worships, and suffers, trained by social software and religious ideology to accept its place.
Clarity knows the system is not as secure as it looks. A brilliant Lunaapeew engineer raised by her grandmother far from her people’s ancestral homeland, she comes to Manhattan carrying the grief of her mother’s murder and questions about the inheritance she was denied. When a child is dying from a preventable illness, Clarity hijacks the city’s systems to save her. Her act exposes the machinery of Oberman’s power and turns her into a symbol of resistance.
To stop her, Oberman recruits Meremoth, an unstable technological genius, to flood the city with deepfakes, agentic AI, and weaponized social media. Truth becomes impossible to separate from performance. Servants turn on masters, the elite splinters, and Manhattan slides toward revolution. Caught between them is Oberman’s volatile son, Duke, whose obsession with Clarity and her mother threatens to bring buried family secrets to the surface.
Darkly comic and provocative, Pervercity is a speculative thriller about wealth, colonization, digital manipulation, and the struggle to build a just community. At its center is a clash between unchecked capitalism and Lunaapeew values of relationship, responsibility, and collective life. As Clarity fights to remain herself in a world designed to distort identity and desire, the novel asks what freedom can mean when every story, image, and belief can be engineered.
Blending Indigenous Futurism, political drama, family conflict, and cyberpunk suspense, Perversity imagines a New York at once strange and disturbingly familiar. At once a page-turner and a warning, it asks whether a society built on exploitation can be transformed without reproducing the violence it seeks to overthrow.
JJ Martin is an Anglo-Canadian writer and businessperson based in Toronto and the author of the novel Father Sweet.
Brent Stonefish (Author)
Brent Stonefish, of the Turtle Clan, is a Lunaapeew Knowledge Keeper and educator who lives with his family at Eelūnaapéewi Lahkéewiit. A former elected councillor, he is the author of Moving Beyond: Understanding the Impacts of Residential Schools.
Prologue - The First Master
1 – Duke Interrupted
2 – Sharing the Medicine Box
3 – Serving the Master of the Private City
4 - A Return for Grandfathers
5 – Two Dreams
6 – Put on a Show
7 – Mr Oberman Can Fix It!
8 – Intentions and Schemes
9 – Ezekiel’s Visitor
10 – An Unnatural Encounter
11 – She’s Always Listening
12 – Anything Goes at Akasen Sporting Life
13 – Word on the Street
14 – The Littles and the Too-muches
15 – Everything to Lose
16 – A Small Protest
17 – A Reunion
18 – Golden Girl
19 – Goodbye, Jerub
20 – Deepfake Clarity
21 – Cloistered Clarity
22 – A Patriot’s Purpose
23 – A Firewall of Blood Quantum
24 – Chatham
25 – Old Grudges
26 – Life Outside the City
27 – Fire
28 - War
29 - Wiikuyeengw
30 – Allies
31 – The Authority
32 – Duke’s Bid
33 – Two Great Projects
34 – Weelaawsihtiit
35 – Almost a Humanitarian Mission
36 – Uriah Pays
37 - Following Winter, the Wheel Turns to Spring
38 – Caramel Sweet, Vanity and Twelve Beauties
39 – Racing Uptown
40 – A Well-Deserved Gift
41 – In the Mineral Realm
42 – For Ephrath
43 – Lust for Revenge
44 – Mother Justice
45 – The Other Kind of Grandfather
46 – Release the Prisoner
47 - Inheritance
48 – Reclamation
Epilogue – The New Master Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personnae Concordance
Lexicon of Hulŭníixsuwáakaan