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Chien 51 is a science-fiction novel set in what appears to be a near-future reality or an alternative reality one. There are more than a few elements that have echoes with the present day, or extensions on them that don't feel too far away from where we are now. In an unspecified year, the world is run by global corporations, and at the start of the novel we learn that Greece has collapsed economically and been bought over by a corporation called GoldTex. (Interestingly, in an uncanny echo with the uncertainties currently in the real world we find that Venezuela has also been similarly 'purchased' with somewhat less disturbance than the protests and street riots that occurred with the collapse of Greece). The huge corporations are too powerful however and any insurrection is quickly put down. The fall of Greece was 20 years ago now, and the population of the country put to good use working for GoldTex, those with good qualifications sent to work in Magnapole as ' cilar...