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The 99% Solution
A hilarious, swashbuckling, intercontinental, inter-dimensional thrill ride that will leave you questioning centuries of world politics.
Simon Wentworth—daft, brilliant, confused physicist who believes he can choose the course of history at the intersections of past and future realities.
Fiona Black—delightful, optimistic, Australian proprietor of The Intoxicating Page, a bar-bookstore where cocktails are matched to literature.
Vladimir “Volodya” Kazimer—badass, pessimistic, cold-war era Russian hacker whose software calculates the probabilities of different futures.
Winter—cute little doggy.
These three keyboard-wielding musketeers (and their beagle) call themselves the Time Weavers (actually, Fiona calls them that, Simon finds it simplistic, Volodya thinks it’s stupid, and Winter doesn’t talk). Together, they search for the incidental but pivotal events that alter history and manipulate them to rescue civilization from human foibles.
In The 99% Solution…
Lucy Montgomery, a tiny woman with a commanding presence, is buried in student loan debt and pissed off at a rigged system. Francis Gordon Woodley, IV, the ultimate one-percenter, is the pampered heir to a corporate empire that can buy entire nations.
Manipulated by anarchists, Lucy sets out to destroy corporate power so that classless democracy can bloom into world-wide utopia. With his oligarch friends, Francis sets out to destroy govern-ment authority, un¬leash free-market forces and spawn world-wide utopia.
With Lucy and Francis on a collision course, the Time Weavers race to save humanity by manipulating the future. Every timeline leads to a hundred year dark age except one. But for that one timeline to emerge into reality, Simon must encourage his daughter, Lucy, to assassinate his mentor’s son, Francis.
Guaranteed to deliver a Raiders of the Lost Ark buzz of international adventure, history, and humor, The Time Weavers employ friendship, rivalry, drinks, and wit to save the world when it needs saving.
Simon Wentworth—daft, brilliant, confused physicist who believes he can choose the course of history at the intersections of past and future realities.
Fiona Black—delightful, optimistic, Australian proprietor of The Intoxicating Page, a bar-bookstore where cocktails are matched to literature.
Vladimir “Volodya” Kazimer—badass, pessimistic, cold-war era Russian hacker whose software calculates the probabilities of different futures.
Winter—cute little doggy.
These three keyboard-wielding musketeers (and their beagle) call themselves the Time Weavers (actually, Fiona calls them that, Simon finds it simplistic, Volodya thinks it’s stupid, and Winter doesn’t talk). Together, they search for the incidental but pivotal events that alter history and manipulate them to rescue civilization from human foibles.
In The 99% Solution…
Lucy Montgomery, a tiny woman with a commanding presence, is buried in student loan debt and pissed off at a rigged system. Francis Gordon Woodley, IV, the ultimate one-percenter, is the pampered heir to a corporate empire that can buy entire nations.
Manipulated by anarchists, Lucy sets out to destroy corporate power so that classless democracy can bloom into world-wide utopia. With his oligarch friends, Francis sets out to destroy govern-ment authority, un¬leash free-market forces and spawn world-wide utopia.
With Lucy and Francis on a collision course, the Time Weavers race to save humanity by manipulating the future. Every timeline leads to a hundred year dark age except one. But for that one timeline to emerge into reality, Simon must encourage his daughter, Lucy, to assassinate his mentor’s son, Francis.
Guaranteed to deliver a Raiders of the Lost Ark buzz of international adventure, history, and humor, The Time Weavers employ friendship, rivalry, drinks, and wit to save the world when it needs saving.
352 pages, Paperback
First published August 6, 2018
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About the author
Ransom Stephens
9 books72 followersAuthor, speaker, and physicist, Ransom Stephens writes fantasy, science fiction, and popular science. His high concept fiction puts characters that make you laugh and cry at the center of conflict.
His latest, The Book of Bastards, is a rollicking, bawdy fantasy of chivalry and revenge. It comes out on January 14, 2020 and the e-book is being sold for $0.99 only as pre-order, on the launch date it goes to full retail!
In Too Rich to Die and The 99% Solution, three keyboard-wielding musketeers take you around the world on thrill rides that will leave you questioning centuries of world history; The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism and idealism gone wrong; and his first novel, The God Patent, is a perspective-altering story of science and religion.
His popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs: a look at the neuroscience of innovation & creativity, is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better.
If you've read one of Ransom's books, please post a review at your favorite book site, like this one. Whether a sentence or an essay, he'll appreciate the boost as much as the advice.
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His latest, The Book of Bastards, is a rollicking, bawdy fantasy of chivalry and revenge. It comes out on January 14, 2020 and the e-book is being sold for $0.99 only as pre-order, on the launch date it goes to full retail!
In Too Rich to Die and The 99% Solution, three keyboard-wielding musketeers take you around the world on thrill rides that will leave you questioning centuries of world history; The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism and idealism gone wrong; and his first novel, The God Patent, is a perspective-altering story of science and religion.
His popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs: a look at the neuroscience of innovation & creativity, is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better.
If you've read one of Ransom's books, please post a review at your favorite book site, like this one. Whether a sentence or an essay, he'll appreciate the boost as much as the advice.
You can follow Ransom’s Rants on writing, science, politics, and beer at all the usually places, plus if you'd liked to receive the famous*, life-changing* Ransom’s Notes--in which he provides amusement* and insights* into how* and why* we live, in addition to updates on his latest books (and get a free e-copy of one of his novels!)--hie thee to
https://subscribe.ransomstephens.com (cut and paste the link).
Ransom is represented by Laurie McLean, Founding Partner of the Fuse Literary agency.
Bookbub: bookbub.com/authors/ransom-stephens
Friend: facebook.com/ransomstephens
Like: facebook.com/RansomsBooks
Watch: www.youtube.com/user/DocRansom
Contact: ransom at ransomstephens.com
Stalk: @ransomstephens
Web: ransomstephens.com
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January 25, 2019
A collection of quirky characters, headed by a computer engineer armed with the software to predict (statistically, and so with a reasonable amount of uncertainty) the future, come together during the Occupy movement and immediately become entangled in a mission to help one young woman who might be a key player in saving the world. An engaging and fun read that takes a reader to a number of unexpected places, from offices of one of the most powerful men in the world, to a quirky underground San Francisco cafe.
March 9, 2019
Like another reader who posted a review here, I'm not an avid a fan of science fiction, but I am a fan of Ransom Stephens. He is a wordsmith who delivers a combination of intelligence, humor, scientific expertise, cultural knowledge and thrills in this book. If you buy it, I expect you'll swiftly get drawn into the challenges his memorable characters face and yearn for the next in the series when you reach th end.
May 29, 2022
this was not for me convoluted and unfathomable
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