Synopsis

Do you dislike evil and immoral protagonists? Are you tired of morally gray anti-heroes or characters that act like ethics doesn't matter? Is the main character you're after one that strives to act according to what they see as the moral good? And would you like that moral good to be expounded upon? To be discussed using actual philosophy instead of being presented as a given, as though objective morality is not only assuredly real but also incredibly simple to grasp? Most important, are you fine with reading a book whose protagonist pretty much starts a very idealized version of the author themselves?
If you answered yes to all of those questions, then this novel is for you.
If you answered no, then please, read the actual synopsis below to see whether this story might actually interest you.
Sam Anders was just your average twenty-two-year-old guy. Well… he was born to a middle-class family with tertiary education in a Global North nation, so compared to most people in the world, he was way above average. But compared to most people he had regular contact with? Yeah, he was pretty average. Of course, that was before he lost both of his legs in a traffic accident. That makes a person of any socioeconomic standing unique.
It doesn’t matter for our story, though, because it gets resolved in chapter two.
What matters to us is that Sam most definitely stopped being an “average guy” when he was kidnapped a hundred years into the future and to another world. Making him the newest Taken in the Web. Sam wasn’t impressed with that revelation. Because it didn’t mean anything to him, sure. But mostly because, immediately after, he was told the reason why he was returned to another world. Earth was destroyed during its integration to the Web—the name given to the interconnected system of worlds that comprise the new face of existence for the remnants of humanity.
So far, so bad, but it gets even worse for Sam. Because he is soon informed that the Web is itself under attack by a malevolent force. A force that fought humanity and the other races and nations of the Web to a standstill in the north, just a couple of worlds away from where Sam is currently being told this information. But then he’s told that the front is static; that the situation isn't so dire, so he doesn’t have to worry about taking up arms in defense of his new reality. Even though he’s also a Thread-Weaver, whatever that means. That belief, and the self-introspective ethical discussion that followed it, is short-lived however. Because at the end of his first day on New Terra, a voice sounds in Sam’s head. It tells him that it was the reason Sam was taken to the future; that Sam is unique in the entire history of the Web in being both a Thread-Weaver and a Taken. It also tells him the reason: That it foresaw the allied forces’ loss in the war. And that Sam Anders was the best unknown variable that might change that outcome; save the Web and its inhabitants.
So that pretty much decided for Sam what he should do. Because as far as making universal maxims based on the first categorical imperative goes, this one is pretty easy. Sam will have to rise to the occasion, and hopefully not die or kill himself while trying.