The 99% Solution

by Ransom Stephens Narrated by Ransom Stephens

Overview

What if you could see alternate timelines?

What if you could pick and choose between them?

Lucy Montgomery is the 99% -- buried in student loan debt and pissed off at a rigged system. Francis Gordon Woodley, IV, is the top of the 1% -- heir to a corporate empire that can buy or topple entire nations.

Manipulated by anarchists, Lucy sets out to destroy corporate power so that classless democracy can bloom into worldwide utopia. With his oligarch friends, Francis sets out to destroy government, unleash free-market forces, and spawn worldwide utopia.

With Lucy and Francis on a collision course, the Time Weavers race to save humanity. Every time weave leads to a hundred-year dark age, except one. But for that one timeline to emerge into reality, Simon must encourage Lucy, the woman that should have been his daughter, to assassinate his mentor's son, Francis.

Simon Wentworth -- confused physicist who believes he can choose the course of history from the intersections of past and future realities.

Fiona Black -- optimistic proprietor of The Intoxicating Page, a bar-bookstore where literature is matched to cocktails.

Vladimir "Volodya" Kazimer -- pessimistic Russian hacker whose software calculates the probabilities for different futures.

Winter -- cute little doggy.

Together, they are The Time Weavers.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

“No writer working today so effortlessly packs such intelligence, humanity, and wit into good old-fashioned storytelling as Ransom Stephens. His latest, The 99% Solution, is his best yet. Breezily paced and yet full of suspense, this topical, whimsical, heartfelt novel kept me merrily turning pages deep into the night. Buy it, read it. You’ll thank me.”

–David Corbett, award-winning author of

The Mercy of the Night

“I loved this. It's lively science fiction from a guy who knows his science, knows his fiction, and by God knows how to tell a story. In fact I got so caught up in the story, I didn’t notice until later that Ransom’s book was raising deep thoughts and intriguing questions in my mind.”

–Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted

“Tossing us into the maelstrom at the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Ransom Stephens has created a brilliant science fiction thriller that thoughtfully depicts the class warfare of our era.”

–Alex Dolan, author of The Euthanist

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178830550
Publisher:	The Intoxicating Page
Publication date:	05/14/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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