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Ultimart

by Carl Wilhoyte

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A consumer dystopia built beneath an artificial sky

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A consumer dystopia built beneath an artificial sky

Set inside a sealed retail landscape where millions spend their entire lives, Ultimart turns the promise of suburban abundance into a system of scarcity, surveillance, and corporate control. Corwin Scaggs works in AI advertising while his family faces the threat of permanent factory labor, linking private desperation to the Dome’s wider machinery of commerce and security. The novel’s stated dark-comic premise includes annual Black Friday violence, decaying malls, and a culture organized around “The Dream.” As Corwin pursues advancement through increasingly extreme corporate tactics, the story frames consumer fantasy as something sustained by exploitation and concealed truths.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in dystopian fiction centered on consumer culture and corporate power
  • Readers seeking satire with a darkly comic premise
  • Readers drawn to enclosed-world stories involving surveillance, inequality, and resistance

Themes

ConsumerismCorporate controlEconomic precaritySurveillanceArtificial utopia

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Book overview

Over 20 million people are born, live, and die inside the Ultimart Dome without ever stepping foot in the outside world. The Dome is artificial grass, plastic trees, toilet-blue water, crammed with colorful, decaying malls and desperate people. And at the center of it all is The Dream, the suburban fantasy of comfort and plenty.

 

Corwin Scaggs grinds out a meager living in a low-level AI advertising firm, surviving the four hours of sleep everyone's allowed each night, the yearly Black Friday massacres, and the brutality of Ultimart Security. His family lives on the razor's edge of "bankruptcy", a one-way ticket to corporate slavery in enormous underground factories.

 

He's fighting for the Dream and he'll do anything to get it: corporate coups, blackmail, extortion, even industrial warfare. But the Dream is actually a nightmare, and when Corwin discovers this horrifying secret, he has to tell everyone the truth at any cost.

 

Ultimart is a darkly comic look at an absurd world, one made more terrifying the more plausible it now seems.

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