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The Time Weavers #1
The 99% Solution
What if you could see alternate timelines? What if you could pick and choose between them?
Lucy Montgomery is the 99 percent - buried in student loan debt and pissed off at a rigged system. Francis Gordon Woodley, IV, is the top of the 1 percent - 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 100-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.
Lucy Montgomery is the 99 percent - buried in student loan debt and pissed off at a rigged system. Francis Gordon Woodley, IV, is the top of the 1 percent - 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 100-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.
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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.
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Watch: www.youtube.com/user/DocRansom
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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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