Solid State

An act of terrorism sets humanity's technological advancement back 200 years. How will two men, one a victim and one the perpetrator, recover their lives from the turmoil?

In the year 2036, humanity has achieved a nearly perfect digitally-based society, but a terrorist group known as The Liberators sees it as their mission to free humanity from the shackles of social media. Aided by a rogue tech billionaire, they detonate a nuclear device over the heart of technology, the San Francisco Bay Area, and instantly turn back the clock two hundred years on the eight million people who live there, leading to widespread chaos and death. In the aftermath of the attack, an ambitious young Senate candidate rescues his family from the horrors of the disaster even as more attacks are being threatened across the United States. The man behind the attack learns he has been a pawn in this global game. Only through an encounter with a mysterious stranger does he find a pathway to redeem himself and make amends to the human race which he had harmed so gravely.

Tim Knight has written about the use and effects of technology since his first book The World Connection was published in 1982. A resident of Silicon Valley for his entire adult life, Knight has authored two dozen books about computers, investing methods, and financial history. In 1992 he founded Prophet Financial Systems, which was selected by both Barron's and Forbes as the best technical analysis website on the Internet. After selling Prophet in 2005 to Ameritrade, Knight has focused his attention on the Slope of Hope website (slopeofhope.com) on which he has written over 30,000 articles about such topics as culture, theology, politics, the financial markets, and the media. He lives in Palo Alto, California with his family and a hodgepodge of animals. Solid State is his first novel.