The Underground, published in 2025, is a philosophical dystopian novel that poses an impossible question: whether a society manufactured for perfection can remain moral when its survival depends on concealed exploitation and collective ignorance
Set within a technologically advanced underground world designed to eliminate hunger, conflict, and inequality after the surface above becomes uninhabitable, the novel examines the tension between reality and manufactured happiness. It explores the ethical cost of living within a carefully managed system, and whether a society can accept the truth once comfort and stability have become normalized.
“I’ve always wondered what’s worse: living happily in ignorance or knowing the truth and carrying its weight.”
