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The Dismantling

FictionElizabeth Maher
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Elizabeth Maher's series concludes with a narrative about Janice Spurlock, who designs the Concord Settlement with deliberate impermanence—structures built to be completely dismantled and leave no trace. The story explores how one woman anticipated cultural collapse by engineering everything, from buildings to records, to vanish without archaeological evidence.

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