The 99 Solution, Ransom Stephens
The 99 Solution, Ransom Stephens
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The 99% Solution

Author: Ransom Stephens

Narrator: Ransom Stephens

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2020


Synopsis

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.

About Ransom Stephens

Ransom Stephens is a physicist, technologist, and novelist. He’s written over 400 articles on subjects ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers and produces events for Litquake. His first novel, The God Patent, was “the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Petaluma, CA.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Olga on 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......more

Goodreads review by Laura McHale on March 08, 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 ge......more