Science fiction in the truest sense of the word, because the book not only describes many genuine scientific insights, but also presents fantastic connections that take the reader into new dimensions of the business world. Consciously narrated in the first person, the short story, upon deeper reflection, becomes a hero’s journey into the subconscious id and ultimately culminates in the superego.
More educated readers will discover skillful combinations of actual facts, such as graph theory through the A-E-I-O-U framework and theses from quantum physics, including the uncertainty principle, along with psychological, mathematical, and ultimately economic narrative threads. For others, however, the fairy tale–like style of storytelling remains a self-chosen edutainment fantasy.
The title ‘The Entropieneur’ is a coined neologism derived from the well-known Gallicism ‘Entrepreneur’—which can be distinguished from the German word ‘Unternehmer’ (business owner)—and ‘entropy,’ a physical quantity that describes the effect of the second law of thermodynamics.