The Modest Proposal Institute

A Dystopian Novel

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Pub Date 12 Nov 2018 | Archive Date 02 Apr 2019

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Description

Can two school rivals save the Western world?

Like many young men, Alexis dreams of adventure and being an adventurer, a Viking or a Pirate, or maybe just your movie-style heroic action man saving the Western world. He knows that he’s going to do it by leading his new school, an offshore boarding school and university built by his grandfather and a retired engineer, to ever greater success. The only barrier he sees standing in his way is a kid called Shane.

Shane is only at the school because he somehow upsets people whenever he speaks, which isn’t too surprising because while they are very ordinary, he’s extraordinarily clever. It turns out this strange island school is full of misfits like him and he quickly sees that his destiny is to lead it to world away from the people who rejected him. His only real rival for head of the Institute is a kid called Alexis.

Each of them believes that only by besting the other, and by clever detective work to stop the other’s rise, will they achieve their true place and that only under their leadership will the future of the world be safe. It’s a coming-of-age, do-or-die struggle, him or me – or is it? Can they both succeed?

This visionary science fiction tale begins with Paul James’s new Dystopian Young Adult Fiction novel, The Modest Proposal Institute: An Old Path to a New Future, which launches two new heroes into the world and the cosmos.

Buy The Modest Proposal Institute and start your journey to the New Future

Can two school rivals save the Western world?

Like many young men, Alexis dreams of adventure and being an adventurer, a Viking or a Pirate, or maybe just your movie-style heroic action man saving the...


Advance Praise

Very interesting concept and not one that I had read before. It's set in the not far off future and lays the groundwork for an exciting new adventure into space.

Very interesting concept and not one that I had read before. It's set in the not far off future and lays the groundwork for an exciting new adventure into space.


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Modest Proposal Institute by Paul James. This book challenges today's society on several levels, Many people will reject what is written entirely out of hand because they don't like or believe that what's in its pages. A well thought out proposal, wish I knew how practical it is. I enjoyed this book.

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This book holds an interesting premise - what if you founded a school for intelligent boys on an island, you taught them how to program computer games, coding, business practices and other academic subjects, and then you paid them for what they produced?
What if the rest of the world watched as with envy as this group of boys took over the world’s currency and businesses and complained that girls were being overlooked?
Read this book to see what these boys accomplish - is it Paradise or not?

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Very well written!

Quite enjoyed reading The Modest Proposal Institute. Not what I expected. It was actually better!

I look forward to reading more books by this author.

Highly recommend it.

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