The Black Swan Event
The Black Swan Event
The next battle between liberty and tyranny is about to begin... In a retelling of the 2015 novel, America, Inc., award-winning author Mikael Carlson brings the omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation of Orwell's 1984 and weaves in the twists and turns of Game of Thrones. The Black Swan Event is the action-packed and realistic first novel of this epic speculative fiction saga showing the world's terrifying dystopian future. * SILVER MEDAL - The Bookfest Awards, Dystopian-Society & War, Fall 2022
* SILVER MEDAL - Global Book Awards, Military, 2022
* FINALIST - American Fiction Awards, Thriller - Political, 2022
* LONGLIST - Page Turner Book Awards, Best Thriller, 2022
* Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2022 The Black Swan Event is the first novel in a planned six-book serial drama. Readers are strongly encouraged to begin the journey with this book and enjoy the America, Inc. Saga in the order they were written. "The Black Swan Event brings to life a masterfully detailed array of characters with diverse viewpoints that establish an intricately mesmerizing, yet alarmingly grim, reality."--Review by Book ExcellenceMikael Carlson introduces us to the world dominated by the corporate state: a terrifying look at a future where people are dependent on the system for everything. Following a global economic collapse in 2039 that brought governments to their knees, brutal violence and chaos spread across the globe. To fill the power vacuum, giant multinational corporations, backed by wealthy benefactors, seized the reins of power and began governing the masses. Nearly fifty years later, there is no crime, no unemployment, no homelessness, and no war. All that progress came at a price - individual freedom. People are now cogs in the corporate machine whose sole purpose is to enrich the elite. Every employee is monitored for any hint of subversion and subjected to the harshest penalties for even minor transgressions. Most of the world's population has accepted this new reality. Not all of them have. The corporations call them "terrorists." They call themselves humanity's last, best hope for liberty. When an underground group of dissenters detonates an explosion that causes problems with trading on the world's sole stock exchange, a series of events are set in motion that threatens to unravel the fabric of society. Egos clash as bureaucrats, corporate executives, and wealthy elites play politics amid an unprecedented threat to the
* SILVER MEDAL - Global Book Awards, Military, 2022
* FINALIST - American Fiction Awards, Thriller - Political, 2022
* LONGLIST - Page Turner Book Awards, Best Thriller, 2022
* Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2022 The Black Swan Event is the first novel in a planned six-book serial drama. Readers are strongly encouraged to begin the journey with this book and enjoy the America, Inc. Saga in the order they were written. "The Black Swan Event brings to life a masterfully detailed array of characters with diverse viewpoints that establish an intricately mesmerizing, yet alarmingly grim, reality."--Review by Book ExcellenceMikael Carlson introduces us to the world dominated by the corporate state: a terrifying look at a future where people are dependent on the system for everything. Following a global economic collapse in 2039 that brought governments to their knees, brutal violence and chaos spread across the globe. To fill the power vacuum, giant multinational corporations, backed by wealthy benefactors, seized the reins of power and began governing the masses. Nearly fifty years later, there is no crime, no unemployment, no homelessness, and no war. All that progress came at a price - individual freedom. People are now cogs in the corporate machine whose sole purpose is to enrich the elite. Every employee is monitored for any hint of subversion and subjected to the harshest penalties for even minor transgressions. Most of the world's population has accepted this new reality. Not all of them have. The corporations call them "terrorists." They call themselves humanity's last, best hope for liberty. When an underground group of dissenters detonates an explosion that causes problems with trading on the world's sole stock exchange, a series of events are set in motion that threatens to unravel the fabric of society. Egos clash as bureaucrats, corporate executives, and wealthy elites play politics amid an unprecedented threat to the
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The next battle between liberty and tyranny is about to begin... In a retelling of the 2015 novel, America, Inc., award-winning author Mikael Carlson brings the omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation of Orwell's 1984 and weaves in the twists and turns of Game of Thrones. The Black Swan Event is the action-packed and realistic first novel of this epic speculative fiction saga showing the world's terrifying dystopian future. * SILVER MEDAL - The Bookfest Awards, Dystopian-Society & War, Fall 2022
* SILVER MEDAL - Global Book Awards, Military, 2022
* FINALIST - American Fiction Awards, Thriller - Political, 2022
* LONGLIST - Page Turner Book Awards, Best Thriller, 2022
* Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2022 The Black Swan Event is the first novel in a planned six-book serial drama. Readers are strongly encouraged to begin the journey with this book and enjoy the America, Inc. Saga in the order they were written. "The Black Swan Event brings to life a masterfully detailed array of characters with diverse viewpoints that establish an intricately mesmerizing, yet alarmingly grim, reality."--Review by Book ExcellenceMikael Carlson introduces us to the world dominated by the corporate state: a terrifying look at a future where people are dependent on the system for everything. Following a global economic collapse in 2039 that brought governments to their knees, brutal violence and chaos spread across the globe. To fill the power vacuum, giant multinational corporations, backed by wealthy benefactors, seized the reins of power and began governing the masses. Nearly fifty years later, there is no crime, no unemployment, no homelessness, and no war. All that progress came at a price - individual freedom. People are now cogs in the corporate machine whose sole purpose is to enrich the elite. Every employee is monitored for any hint of subversion and subjected to the harshest penalties for even minor transgressions. Most of the world's population has accepted this new reality. Not all of them have. The corporations call them "terrorists." They call themselves humanity's last, best hope for liberty. When an underground group of dissenters detonates an explosion that causes problems with trading on the world's sole stock exchange, a series of events are set in motion that threatens to unravel the fabric of society. Egos clash as bureaucrats, corporate executives, and wealthy elites play politics amid an unprecedented threat to the
* SILVER MEDAL - Global Book Awards, Military, 2022
* FINALIST - American Fiction Awards, Thriller - Political, 2022
* LONGLIST - Page Turner Book Awards, Best Thriller, 2022
* Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2022 The Black Swan Event is the first novel in a planned six-book serial drama. Readers are strongly encouraged to begin the journey with this book and enjoy the America, Inc. Saga in the order they were written. "The Black Swan Event brings to life a masterfully detailed array of characters with diverse viewpoints that establish an intricately mesmerizing, yet alarmingly grim, reality."--Review by Book ExcellenceMikael Carlson introduces us to the world dominated by the corporate state: a terrifying look at a future where people are dependent on the system for everything. Following a global economic collapse in 2039 that brought governments to their knees, brutal violence and chaos spread across the globe. To fill the power vacuum, giant multinational corporations, backed by wealthy benefactors, seized the reins of power and began governing the masses. Nearly fifty years later, there is no crime, no unemployment, no homelessness, and no war. All that progress came at a price - individual freedom. People are now cogs in the corporate machine whose sole purpose is to enrich the elite. Every employee is monitored for any hint of subversion and subjected to the harshest penalties for even minor transgressions. Most of the world's population has accepted this new reality. Not all of them have. The corporations call them "terrorists." They call themselves humanity's last, best hope for liberty. When an underground group of dissenters detonates an explosion that causes problems with trading on the world's sole stock exchange, a series of events are set in motion that threatens to unravel the fabric of society. Egos clash as bureaucrats, corporate executives, and wealthy elites play politics amid an unprecedented threat to the
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