Welcome to Litsy!

What if Charles Dickens had written a 21st century thriller? Welcome to Dingley Dell. The Encyclopedia Britannica (Ninth Edition), a King James Bible, a world atlas, and a complete set of the novels of Charles Dickens are the only books left to the orphans of Dingley Dell, when the clandestine anthropological experiment began. For over a century Dinglians lived their semi-idyllic and unwitting anachronistic existence, aided only by minimal trade-related contact with the supposedly plague-ridden Outland. But those days are coming quickly to an end. The experiment has run its course. Dingley Dell must be expunged, and with it, all trace of the thousands of neo-Victorians who live there. A few Dinglians learn the secret of both their manipulated past and their doomed future, and this small, motley society of Dickensian innocents must race the clock to save ththeir fellow countrymen and themselves from mass annihilation.