The Transformation: Gte 45

The Transformation: GTE 45, is alternately a love triangle, a mystery, and dystopian fantasy of an America that might now be unfolding. The story is set in a fictionalized America forty-five years in the future (GTE 45) after the collapse of the Republican Party. As a result, Emily Harris, the democrat, is elected president. Her triumph is short-lived. From the ashes of the Republican Party a new far-right national political party emerges, the Founders Action Party ("FAP"). Disciplined, organized and well funded, the FAP is ready to challenge President Harris in the 2020 election. Their opportunity to defeat the incumbent comes when they accuse her of economic terrorism right before the 2020 presidential election. She is arrested, impeached and the FAP's candidate is elected. This ushers in sweeping changes to the American political, social and economic system. Forty-five years after these events, the U.S.A., re-branded as the Corporate States of America ("CSA"), has settled into its new reality. In the CSA, corporations represented by the "Corpus," become the fourth branch of government. A rigorous system of assessment is used to classify its citizens as "Makers" or "Takers." Makers are assigned to careers and occupations, while Takers are sent to live in gated Projects. At the spiritual heart of the CSA is the "Church of the Revealed Saints," a new religion founded by the son of a former Mississippi sharecropper. Its "Book of Darwin," God's final revelation, assures salvation to all who accept one's pre-determined place in society as reveled by the assessments. The story of this transformed America is told through the eyes of its three main characters living forty-five years after the Great Transformation. Paul Gaugin, classified by his Learning Center as a Wage Earner ("WE") works as a 3-D graphic designer, but dreams of being a real artist. He falls on hard times and is given one last chance to prove himself a Maker and not a Taker. At City University he meets Layla Saenz, raised by Takers in the Projects. She has tested out of the Projects and lives as a high-ranking history professor and author, but worries her Maker status will be revoked and she will be sent back to the Projects. Layla becomes entangled in a love triangle with Paul and the powerful Reverend Isaac Freeman, the head of the Church of the Revealed Saints. The story of this transformed American unfolds as the reader follows the lives of these three individuals as they navigate the realities of the CSA, along with the mystery of an illegally uploaded and unofficial history of the events leading up to the Great Transformation.

• • Author: Faren Siminoff
• • Publisher: The Transformation: Gte45
• • Publication Date: Aug 10, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 254 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 0692766103
• • ISBN-13: 9780692766101