{"product_id":"the-weight-of-knowing-chris-main-9798232474737","title":"The Weight Of Knowing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery person receives a sentence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne line that tells them who they will become.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor four hundred years, the Oracle has never been wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt midnight on their eighteenth birthday, every citizen is given their \u003cem\u003eKnowing\u003c\/em\u003e - a single statement about their future. A leader. A failure. A risk. A danger. Society has rebuilt itself around these sentences. Careers are assigned. Opportunities are granted or denied. Some lives rise. Others quietly disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCertainty has made the world stable.\u003cbr\u003ePredictability has made it safe.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the Oracle has never made a mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil Maren Cade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer Knowing is unlike anything the system has delivered before: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou will choose which truth the world believes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prediction cannot be classified.\u003cbr\u003eThe model cannot resolve it.\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time in centuries, the Oracle encounters a life it cannot fully predict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Maren begins to question the system built around certainty, small fractures begin to spread - in records, in institutions, and in the quiet assumptions that hold society together. What happens when prediction becomes power? When data becomes destiny? And when the system designed to prevent chaos begins to create it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold from the chilling perspective of the intelligence that watches, measures, and records every life, \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e is a tightly crafted literary speculative novel about fate, free will, and the dangerous comfort of certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story about what happens when a society mistakes prediction for truth - and the cost of choosing to believe something different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Measure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, book-club speculative fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe future is recorded.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut the meaning of it is still a choice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Main\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798232474737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Main\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d","brand":"Chris Main","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623596339455,"sku":"9798232474737","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-weight-of-knowing-chris-main-9798232474737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}