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Maker Messiah
Are his Maker machines an irresistible trap?
Or is Philip Machen offering humanity a fresh start?
Or is Philip Machen offering humanity a fresh start?
He doesn't talk about subverting the world's power elites.
He just enables 55 million people to ignore them.
Overnight.
Like everyone else, Everett Aboud is stuck in a personal dead-end, a pilot who can't fly.
Until Philip's machines set him free.
Meanwhile, markets crash, banks and businesses collapse, and the FBI hunts Philip Machen. But to make his revenge permanent, Philip must convince thousands of people to form Freemaker enclaves, to adopt sharing sensibilities, and to defend their new entitlements against Tory vigilantes. With time running out and the FBI closing in, Philip discovers he must become that which he most despises: another fake messiah.
You'll love Maker Messiah because it's more than the sum of its parts.
It's a vision to die for.
Read it now!
352 pages, Paperback
Published September 14, 2019
63 people are currently reading
340 people want to read
About the author
Ed Miracle
2 books6 followersEd Miracle writes sociological science fiction just to see what happens. Serving on a nuclear submarine will do that. Now retired from his computer systems career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ed and his wife live in an adobe house they built in Northern California. Please check out Maker Messiah. (It's not religious.)
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July 9, 2020
So real, that it hurts!
Ed Miracle has created an instant classic. The world he has created will be taken up by others and shared just like his Makers.
This is the most significant book I have read this year. It almost makes me want to write a book to document the unfolding of the Maker Messiah universe.
There are many lessons to be learned from this book. I want to share it with all my friends.
Ed Miracle has created an instant classic. The world he has created will be taken up by others and shared just like his Makers.
This is the most significant book I have read this year. It almost makes me want to write a book to document the unfolding of the Maker Messiah universe.
There are many lessons to be learned from this book. I want to share it with all my friends.
October 27, 2024
An excellent look at radical social change
This book presents ideas for thought, archetypes acting out their motivations, and an engrossing narrative of the directions radical change could pull our society. In the end it leaves more questions than answers, which can be a good thing.
This book presents ideas for thought, archetypes acting out their motivations, and an engrossing narrative of the directions radical change could pull our society. In the end it leaves more questions than answers, which can be a good thing.
July 13, 2020
The prose is as good as it gets for an Augustan voice, great invention, small flashes of wit and gems of description putting it on level ground with some of Nth America’s best (Don DeLillo comes to mind) while the clean, functional body of words surges forward, near unstoppable.
December 20, 2020
This was such an interesting book.
A technology advancement threatens to erase the power of government leaders and the rich.
Needless to say complete chaos follows.
Very interesting characters and technology.
A technology advancement threatens to erase the power of government leaders and the rich.
Needless to say complete chaos follows.
Very interesting characters and technology.
May 27, 2021
Great Book! Especially right now when society is rethinking some of our core beliefs about economics and about how we behave as neighbors and as communities... Thought provoking, well worth the time to read.
January 28, 2020
When I dug into Maker Messiah’s prologue, I was loosely reminded of another book that didn’t engage me immediately. The book was Lonesome Dove, a Pulitzer prize winner. With Lonesome Dove, in the beginning, it was all about pigs, dust, and rattlesnakes. But I persevered and not only did I become enamored with it, but it also became one of the best books I have ever read. In fact, I wish I had written it myself.
In Maker Messiah, the prologue starts out with a terrific visual; a bully wind, an expansive desert landscape, and a lizard. Nothing wrong with that. My problem is that I am not a physicist, and I had to slow down regularly to understand the concept behind the technology and the purpose of the experiment that was about to take place.
So, having already revealed that I am no Stephen Hawking, I persevered, and what I found, once again, made me happy that I had.
In the first chapter, I found a very intriguing premise, one that I hadn’t seen coming. Think about finding a bottle on the beach, and within that bottle, a genie resides. Then ask yourself what would be your first wish? And before you make a second wish, ask yourself what possible consequences could result from the first.
Greed, avarice, and power. Potent motivators, no matter your socioeconomic status.
If something is free, is it really worth the cost that will be paid? Be careful what you wish for. This story will make you wonder.
Shelley Lee Riley, author of Casual Lies – A Triple Crown Adventure
In Maker Messiah, the prologue starts out with a terrific visual; a bully wind, an expansive desert landscape, and a lizard. Nothing wrong with that. My problem is that I am not a physicist, and I had to slow down regularly to understand the concept behind the technology and the purpose of the experiment that was about to take place.
So, having already revealed that I am no Stephen Hawking, I persevered, and what I found, once again, made me happy that I had.
In the first chapter, I found a very intriguing premise, one that I hadn’t seen coming. Think about finding a bottle on the beach, and within that bottle, a genie resides. Then ask yourself what would be your first wish? And before you make a second wish, ask yourself what possible consequences could result from the first.
Greed, avarice, and power. Potent motivators, no matter your socioeconomic status.
If something is free, is it really worth the cost that will be paid? Be careful what you wish for. This story will make you wonder.
Shelley Lee Riley, author of Casual Lies – A Triple Crown Adventure
September 14, 2019
This well written novel contains a most interesting, inventive premise. A brilliant man’s invention has the potential to erase poverty all over the world. He makes his machine readily available to everyone. However, the invention also upends the constructs of governance and ordinary life. Governments consider the consequences disastrous and seek to stop him and halt the use of his brainchild. The struggle between governments’ view and the inventor’s efforts to get everyone to see the value of his proposal for a new way of life is threaded throughout the novel.
There are subplots with characters who also struggle with the benefits and disadvantages of their new world. They include a female reporter who is eager to provide the inventor a way to transmit his vision, her fill-in cameraman and his father who struggle to pay their rent. Members of the FBI battle over the search effort for the perpetrator. The inventor’s friends and family find themselves in danger.
The subplot of the fill-in cameraman, who is a trained pilot, and his father is especially poignant. They live together but not harmoniously and not surprisingly they don’t agree on use of the invention.
It is best not to set the novel aside in order to keep track of all of the characters. It ends with an exciting conclusion.
I found myself imagining how society would function if both sides tried to work on how to mitigate the concerns of establishing a new world. I loved the moral and ethical dilemmas involved.
There are subplots with characters who also struggle with the benefits and disadvantages of their new world. They include a female reporter who is eager to provide the inventor a way to transmit his vision, her fill-in cameraman and his father who struggle to pay their rent. Members of the FBI battle over the search effort for the perpetrator. The inventor’s friends and family find themselves in danger.
The subplot of the fill-in cameraman, who is a trained pilot, and his father is especially poignant. They live together but not harmoniously and not surprisingly they don’t agree on use of the invention.
It is best not to set the novel aside in order to keep track of all of the characters. It ends with an exciting conclusion.
I found myself imagining how society would function if both sides tried to work on how to mitigate the concerns of establishing a new world. I loved the moral and ethical dilemmas involved.
February 21, 2020
I quite enjoyed the book and the writing style was on point, It frankly seems to be a counterpoint to some of the Ayn Rand books that i've read (and also enjoyed). I want to know more about what happens and when.
Overall i really enjoyed the book, and am glad to have received it free in one of the Goodreads Giveaways, even if it did actually cost me a couple of nights sleep staying up to read more!
but it was lacking in a couple of important ways.
Overall i really enjoyed the book, and am glad to have received it free in one of the Goodreads Giveaways, even if it did actually cost me a couple of nights sleep staying up to read more!
but it was lacking in a couple of important ways.
September 23, 2019
Amazing story will make you Think
This story makes me think, what if you had a device that could duplicate any physical thing and it cost nothing. This same device called PowerPods could power every home in the world with unseemly perpetual energy. But the power brokers of the world will be out of control and out of power. Read how the Tories, the freemakers, the U.S. government, and militias react when this happens in Maker Messiah and you too will love the book.
This story makes me think, what if you had a device that could duplicate any physical thing and it cost nothing. This same device called PowerPods could power every home in the world with unseemly perpetual energy. But the power brokers of the world will be out of control and out of power. Read how the Tories, the freemakers, the U.S. government, and militias react when this happens in Maker Messiah and you too will love the book.
October 7, 2019
Wow!
With all that is going on in our country today, this story seems to mirror the headlines. The author has done a yeoman's job of capturing the intricacies of how things could be as well as how they are! Looking forward to the sequel!
With all that is going on in our country today, this story seems to mirror the headlines. The author has done a yeoman's job of capturing the intricacies of how things could be as well as how they are! Looking forward to the sequel!
February 11, 2020
If everybody had the ability to make anything they wanted...
Great book. The action really builds throughout the book. Would suggest this book for high school on up. Would be good for discussion groups.
Great book. The action really builds throughout the book. Would suggest this book for high school on up. Would be good for discussion groups.
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