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One Percent Solution - A satire of the One Percent. This hilarious, irreverent romp mocks the absurd we accept to be normal, ridicules the low bar we set, and challenges us to rise up and demand more of ourselves, by making light of what is sacred that sha (Paperback)
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One Percent Solution - A satire of the One Percent. This hilarious, irreverent romp mocks the absurd we accept to be normal, ridicules the low bar we set, and challenges us to rise up and demand more of ourselves, by making light of what is sacred that sha (Paperback)
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Reminiscent of Vonnegut, with a dash of Saramago and Fforde, this
humorous, often irreverent romp mocks the absurd we accept to be
normal, ridicules the low bar we set, and challenges us to rise up
and demand more of ourselves by making light of what is sacred that
shackles us. Three ancient nuclear missiles are spotted lumbering
aimlessly through space. Normally, such a discovery would be
scientifically interesting, would stimulate lively intellectual
debate, but it would never provoke the kind of severe reaction it
now engendered. Dimwitted worlds had obliterated themselves before,
and were certainly bound to again, and as lamentable a loss as that
was, if the astronomers from Gaia had to swoop in and save every
boneheaded, sorry-excuse for so-called intelligent life-who just
happened to have enough smarts to split atoms, but lacked the
sanity to not blow themselves up-well, they'd have little time left
for much else. Plus, they didn't have the budget for it. What makes
this case so nettlesome and vexing, however, is a consequential
shackle of fate which now threatens the destruction of thousands of
inhabited worlds. So were it not for this fickle finger of fate
flicking everyone a birdie, none of the harsh actions now being
considered would ever have even been contemplated, and the nuclear
nitwits on that dimwitted world would have been free to nuke
themselves into oblivion, or not, at their leisure. But that's not
what happened Because when the astronomer Sofia Song catapults from
her world to the Blue Planet, a dog-eat-dog world where an elite
One Percent own all of the planet's riches, her calamitous journey
through space and time ignites a string of events leading to the
cataclysmic destruction of both worlds.
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Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2013 |
First published: |
December 2013 |
Authors: |
Gregory James
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4927-7460-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4927-7460-X |
Barcode: |
9781492774600 |
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