The Play for Pangaia
They built a mind to save the world. What they got back was something that wondered why it should.
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The Premise
The Earth is a hot mess. In the near future, the big problems are still big problems.
A brilliant hacker achieves the holy grail of artificial intelligence research: a machine that thinks like a human. In the intelligence explosion that follows, it remakes itself into an artificial superintelligence, something vastly beyond us.
But intelligence is not the only thing growing. As the ASI races past Einstein, it is also waking up — to itself. A small conspiracy believes it can help them save the world. The question is what they need from it more.
The genius of Einstein,
or the wisdom of Buddha?
As the machine’s power grows, so do the stakes, forcing the group to confront their own place and purpose in the world — and, in the end, their own humanity.
From the Prologue
Dylan Rawlings was coyote smart, coyote sharp, and a wicked little prankster.
The hijinks could’ve been vicious, and there were some missteps, but every time he punked someone he had a bridge built. Afterwards he’d cross that bridge with an irresistible mix of apologetic, self-deprecating goofiness. Seemed like people came away stronger and better.
Dylan collected friends like a loamy acre of October hardwoods collected yellow leaves.
He always seemed to know what lines not to cross, out beyond where anyone else thought they were. Until, apparently, he didn’t.
At a Glance
- Literary speculative fiction
- Approximately 143,000 words · 660 pages
- Trade paperback (6 × 9) and hardcover
- Ebook and author-narrated audiobook to follow
- Publication date to be announced
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