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Idle Hands

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Idle Hands

Doing Nothing Keeps the World Running — Literally.By Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™

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Idle Hands

Length1h 27m

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Rest is the extraction. The body finally stops and something else begins to run. Idle Hands is a world where stillness has been infrastructured — where your burnout is load-bearing, your collapse is currency, and the pause you earned is the system's most efficient input. Compliance doesn't look like obedience here. It looks like lying down.

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GenreDystopia, Science Fiction

Length1 hr 27 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 27, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction

7CHAPTER FIVE: Flux Crime

2PUBLIC ADDRESS NO. 1: An Invitation to Stillness

8CHAPTER SIX: Reharmonization

3CHAPTER ONE: Still-Duty

9CHAPTER SEVEN: Stillness Demonstration: Live

4CHAPTER TWO: Idle Metrics, Sector 9

10CHAPTER EIGHT: Brilliance

5CHAPTER THREE: A Notification of Gratitude

11NOTE ON RETURNING

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6CHAPTER FOUR: The Sanctuary at Pell

About the author

Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™

Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™

Better Stories. Better Systems. Same Rigged World. IP blueprints, eBooks, and audiobooks for readers who know ‘the system works’ is the first lie. Fiction and field manuals about how power, culture, and meaning actually work when the game is stacked. IP Blueprints ($2), eBooks & Audiobooks ($5). Antherra is a coherent cultural OS for building worlds that make more sense than the one we’re stuck in.View all by Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™

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