Black Swan Event

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.

In 2088, fifty years after goverment mismanagement brought on a global economic collapse, a new society has risen from the ashes - one dominated by corporations who serve a powerful elite class. In Manhattan, an underground group of terrorists aims to destroy the system and plunge the world back into darkness. Egos clash, and opportunists seize their chance for power as they race against the clock to save the world from another catastrophe.

"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. Mikael Carlson turns the tension up to full blast in this complex examination of a corporate entity’s overreaching grip on power and the skillful group determined to break its hold."

-- Review by Book Excellence

Game of Thrones meets George Orwell's 1984 meets Wall Street as the powerful and the underdogs battle for the soul of humanity. The America, Inc. Saga is a terrifying look at a future world dominated by the corporate state and the elite.

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. But all that progress came at a price – sacrificing 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 accepts 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 while racing to quash an unprecedented threat to their corporatist economic system. Are these black swan events the harbinger of another great collapse, or is it the spark needed for the light of liberty to shine once more?

THE BLACK SWAN EVENT