![]() I’m using my best judgement about what to do with them,” he later tells spunky reporter Leigh Shore, who becomes an ally. ![]() Will has been working with his best friend, Hamza Sheikh, and Hamza’s pregnant wife, Miko, to sell certain predictions to corporations for hundreds of millions of dollars while posting others on an incredibly popular website known simply as “The Site.” He has good intentions. ![]() They can be as benign as a woman buying milk or as deadly as a bridge collapse. ![]() In a clever twist, Soule starts his novel in the middle of the story, as “scruffy, underemployed” bass player Will Dando flirts with a woman at a bar, hinting that he’s the mysterious figure known in popular culture as “The Oracle.” In fact, Will does know some of the future, as revealed to him in 108 predictions in a dream. Here, he uses his keen eye to create a whip-smart thriller that employs the tiniest bit of speculative fiction, spinning an entertaining, keenly satirical tale about behavior and causality. This is Soule’s debut novel, although he’s spent years writing some of the most popular superhero characters for Marvel, DC, Image, and more. ![]() A man who can see the future-in cryptic fragments-wreaks havoc on the world stage as millions wait breathlessly for every single prediction. ![]()
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