Emphyrio

Extract: Ghyl lives on Halma, a planet of artisans and craft workers whose products are treasured galaxy-wide for their hand crafted beauty. The use of any sort of technology in producing these prized works is illegal. Ghyl's father, Amiante, is a wood carver, who constantly butts his head against the trade unions that run everything in lieu of a powerless puppet government. Amiante instills his son Ghyl with the trade, but also with the myth of Emphyrio, a legendary hero who died speaking the truth and thus changed the world. After Amiante's death by the trade union powers for multiple uses of modern technology, Ghyl goes on a quest to find the truth behind the legend of Emphyrio. Besides the legend, he discovers the truth about his world, and he himself is confronted with the decision to speaking the truth and risking the inevitable outcome...