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Synopsis
From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future—perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Night Vale.
Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming Manhattan bassist named Will Dando awakens from a dream one morning with 108 predictions about the future in his head, he rapidly finds himself the most powerful man in the world. Protecting his anonymity by calling himself the Oracle, he sets up a heavily guarded Web site with the help of his friend Hamza to selectively announce his revelations. In no time, global corporations are offering him millions for exclusive access, eager to profit from his prophecies.
He's also making a lot of high-powered enemies, from the President of the United States and a nationally prominent televangelist to a warlord with a nuclear missile and an assassin grandmother. Legions of cyber spies are unleashed to hack the Site—as it's come to be called—and the best manhunters money can buy are deployed not only to unmask the Oracle but to take him out of the game entirely. With only a handful of people he can trust—including a beautiful journalist—it's all Will can do to simply survive, elude exposure, and protect those he loves long enough to use his knowledge to save the world.
Delivering fast-paced adventure on a global scale as well as sharp-witted satire on our concepts of power and faith, Marvel writer Charles Soule's audacious debut novel takes readers on a rollicking ride where it's impossible to predict what will happen next.
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An Amazon Best Book of April 2018: If you woke up with 108 predictions in your head, what would you do? Sell the information to the highest bidder? Give it away? An ordinary man named Will Dando answers this very question in the pages of The Oracle Year, the first novel from popular comic book author Charles Soule. When Dando anonymously posts a few predictions on a site he dubs The Oracle, it’s flooded with queries, all of them variations of three themes: “Will I get what I want? How can I get what I want? Why can’t I get what I want.” What a self-absorbed society we live in, and Soule’s novel prompts us to ask a few pointed questions about our own naval gazing and the lure of fate versus free will. As for Will Dando, his life is turned upside down by knowledge he didn’t ask for but can’t un-know and everyone, from everyday citizens to hellfire preachers, all the way up to the President of the United States, wants a piece of him. Just when you think you know what’s going to happen, Soule throws a curveball and that’s part of what makes his characters and storyline believable and provocative. Life is unpredictable, after all... --Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review
About the Author
Charles Soule is a New York Times-bestselling, Brooklyn-based comic book writer, musician, and attorney. He is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics, as well as his creator-owned series Curse Words from Image Comics and the award-winning political sci-fi epic Letter 44 from Oni Press.
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0062686631
- ISBN 13 9780062686633
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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