The 99% Solution

By Ransom Stephens

An intercontinental, inter-dimensional thrill ride.

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 the rest of humanity. Every future their computers predict leads to a hundred-year dark age except one. But for that one timeline to emerge into reality, Simon must encourage his god-daughter, Lucy, to assassinate his mentor’s son, Francis. Unless there’s another way.

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Short Fuse Publishing
• Release date: Aug 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463913819

Ransom Stephens

Ransom Stephens is a former physics professor and fifth-generation Californian. After earning his PhD from the University of California–Santa Barbara, he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and conducted cutting-edge research at high energy physics labs across the United States and Europe. He then moved into the high-tech arena, leaving academia to work for a wireless web start-up. He’s now a science writer and high-tech consultant living in Northern California’s Wine country, though he prefers beer. More about Stephens can be found at his website, http://www.ransomstephens.com.