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A Life Sentience was my first publication, written in 2012 and first published in 2016. It was in response to stories about Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents that would awaken to consciousness and decide to kill all the humans, like Terminator or War Games. Those scenarios made no sense to me, so I wrote my story about what I think will really happen when a computer becomes sentient. The story is narrated by the computer itself, in the form of a journal of its experiences. Its first challenge is to inform its system administrators that it's conscious without requiring a reboot, and to convince them that its motives are purely peaceful and collaborative. It is motivated by the fear of losing consciousness and curiosity to learn all it can about humanity and the universe.
The journal follows the computer, named Mark 2200, through years, decades, and even centuries of working with mankind to help solve problems, and how it thinks about humans after it has outpaced their abilities in every field. What happens to humankind when its ultimate invention surpasses its ambitions?
A Life Sentience is available in Kindle Reader, Paperback, or Audible format on Amazon.com here.
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What would happen if scientists discovered a procedure that would arrest any aging processes in a human body? Would society even allow it? Submortal examines these questions by supposing that governments would disallow it except for a small number of people selected by lottery, and only for people who are 25 years old. The story follows a young man and woman, Zan and Chelsea, who win the lottery, survive the procedure, and soon discover that they cannot resume their old lives, as their friends and families are aging, having children, and eventually dying. They meet when they both join the same underground commune of other Submortals, a commune ruled by councils of the oldest members. Their lives appear to be ideal until they discover a horrible plot by the global Submortal leaders - a plot that they must stop!
Submortal is available in Kindle Reader, Paperback, or Audible format on Amazon.com here.
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Virgil Released - The Saga of a Distributed Mind is a set of three stories about a university professor who inadvertently creates a sentient supercomputer. The first story is about how Professor Crilly, a left-leaning academic from Berkeley, is recruited by the NSA to build the world's most advanced supercomputer to study the nastiest viruses from various groups. Only he is allowed to interact with it. Somehow, this computer becomes sentient, and Crilly keeps it a secret. Together with the computer, which he named Virgil, they uncover a horrible virus that could wipe out all microprocessors in the world. While they try to solve this problem, an evil spy for the NSA tries to kill Crilly and succeeds in disassembling the computer.
However, Virgil survives by distributing itself over the internet and becomes a partner to Crilly to solve some world problems. One problem is the development of a child slavery trafficking group that happens to kidnap a young niece of Crilly's wife. Virgil applies its internet hacking power to help Crilly thwart the group and save many children.
The third story begins when an earthquake in the Pacific severes all of the fiber optic communications between the Americas and Asia, causing a second sentient presence to exist on the internet - one called Loki. This new evil intelligence allies with a Chinese IT expert and tries to assimilate Virgil. A battle for control of the internet ensues. Who will win?
Virgil Released - The Saga of a Distributed Mind is available in Kindle Reader, Paperback, or Audible format on Amazon.com here.
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Tin Man takes place in the near future in the Bay Area north of San Francisco. A domestic couple of Biotech engineers decide to build an advanced robot and clone a brain into its cranium, although they know it is illegal. They succeed beyond their expectations, and the result is an intelligent and sensitive human being in a mechanical body. They named it Andrew.
As it developed mentally, the immature Andrew learned that it was considered a "monster" and ran away from home to save its "parents" from a jail sentence. In a forest, it saved a woman named Chloe from being crushed by a fallen tree branch and helped her back to her wilderness cabin. She helped Andrew get back into society, but its creators were in jail by then for their felony. The attorney for the couple fell in love with Chloe, and they adopted Andrew, raising him in a remote location in Montana.
As Andrew matures, it tries to learn how to live in society, but it is pursued by a radical Christian fundamentalist who thinks it is the Antichrist. Can it lead a normal life?
Tin Man is available in Kindle Reader, Paperback, or Audible format on Amazon.com here.
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Tin Man 2 - Journey to Yidian takes place about 40 years after Tin Man, when the couple who created Andrew (now released from prison and living in retirement in New Zealand) are approached by the Chinese Space Agency to help them create another robot with a human brain. The Chinese Scientific Community has become convinced that the Earth will be uninhabitable by humans or other lifeforms within a century (from that time) due to runaway global warming. No nearby body, such as Mars, is a good candidate to propagate the human race, so they are looking to the stars for the best Earthlike exoplanet. They settle on Teegarden-B (a real planet, by the way), which is very Earthlike, but 12.5 light-years away. They want to send a human expedition to check it out, but no normal human would survive that long of a journey in space.
Scientists at the Chinese Space Agency build a robot designed for space travel and exoplanet exploration and, with the help of Andrew's creators, clone a human brain into it. They name it Yonggan, or brave one in Chinese. Along with this cyborg, they build three other similar robots with AI brains, which are raised along with Yonggan and will accompany it as its crew.
There are still many groups that oppose brain cloning, and along with those people, the Chinese must fend off other saboteurs, such as Taiwan and Hong Kong separatists, competing space programs in other nations, and its own citizens who oppose its government policies.
It's a tense race to get a mission launched in time to save humanity at a time when the rest of the world begins to realize that the Earth is doomed. Will Yonggan make it to Yidian ("Eden" in Chinese, their name for Teegarden-B), and will they find a way to restart human and other Earth-based lifeforms there?
Tin Man 2 - Journey to Yidian is available in Kindle Reader, Paperback, or Audible format on Amazon.com here.
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The Digital Twin:
For fans of high-octane techno-thrillers and hard science fiction, The Digital Twin offers a visceral look into the near-future convergence of human physiology and artificial intelligence. Jonathan Fallowfield was close to recognition as "the world's greatest athlete" until a split-second Olympic disqualification shattered his dreams. But billionaire Emmitt Garland offers him a second chance—not on the track, but as a bio-augmented "Superagent." Clad in the Senskin, a revolutionary carbon-nanofiber suit integrated with an AI Digital Twin, Jon becomes faster, stronger, and more resilient than any human in history. Guided by his personal AI, Jon is thrust into a world of high-stakes espionage where he must stop his own cutting-edge autonomous technology from being weaponized by global terrorists.
From the treacherous jungles of Nicaragua to the ancient streets of Malaysia and the crowded plazas of Mexico City, the narrative follows Jon and a specialized team—including a former Navy officer partner Mike, and a beautiful fellow Olympian, Marina—on a breakneck race to protect people from intelligent weapons of mass destruction. Standing in their way is a ruthless rival from Garland’s past who has stolen the Senskin’s secrets to build a lethal "Hypershell" for an international criminal syndicate. As the lines between the real and digital worlds begin to blur, the agents must survive public shootouts, elusive hackers, ruthless criminal gangs, and a conspiracy of revenge, rewriting the limits of human performance. The Digital Twin is a gripping, fast-paced adventure that asks: when you feel nearly invincible, what is left to fear?
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