Isak AI
A Novel
Erschienen am 9. Dezember 2022
312 Seiten
978-1-80341-129-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
ISAK AI: IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL MEET: Nathan Tomlinson and Thomas Greentraub, the inventors of the ISK-730 (Isak) the master computer; ISAK, the computer that became a god to save the world from environmental collapse; U.S. President Armando Goya, cast out of office by Isak in Election Year, 2052; De Juan McCholley, the L.A. rap artist who became Isak's prophet; Ed Gurnsey and his band of clueless worshippers, who founded the first Church of Isak; Wesley Wright, former right-wing radio host, who becomes Isak's press liaison; Dr. Inga Conners, a brilliant geologist; and Dr. Kyle Conners, the oceanographer who becomes Isak's Messiah. This is how the world ends.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Collective Ink
Dateigröße
0,59 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-80341-129-3 (9781803411293)
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Person
Clarke Owens (aka Clarke W. Owens) writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His work has appeared for many years in literary journals and other publications. He is the author of four books and a chapbook of poems. He lives in rural Ohio.
Inhalt
- Intro
- PART I: THE AI GUYS
- PART II: JIM
- 1. Ocean Lover
- 2. Earth Lover
- 3. The March
- 4. Architeuthix Dux
- 5. Indigestion
- 6. Suicide & Seals
- 7. Boiling Point
- 8. Islands, Firearms, Habeas Corpus
- 9. Quack Quack
- 10. In the Doorway
- 11. Wood Mite
- 12. Passages from the President's Journal
- 13. Too Much Daylight
- 14. Hologram
- 15. Ticket
- 16. Tableau
- 17. Shock
- 18. They All Go into the Dark
- 19. Moses & the Red Sea
- 20. Meanwhile at the White House
- 21. One in Four
- 22. A Question Without an Answer
- 23. End of the Campaign Trail
- 24. Black Hole
- 25. Hope of a Helicopter
- 26. No China
- PART III. ISAK
- 1. Isak Takes Hold
- 2. Fifteen Watts
- 3. They Hadn't Seen Him
- 4. Simoom
- 5. Meanwhile at the White House
- 6. A Business Proposition
- 7. Collapse Rap Prophet
- 8. Parking Space
- 9. Fanatical, Crabbed & Extreme
- 10. An Easy Question
- 11. Money for Old Men
- 12. Revelation
- 13. Annunciation
- PART IV: THE AI GUYS
- PART V: EXILE & RETURN
- 1. Very Strange Gringos
- 2. Plant
- 3. Awakened
- 4. A Bourgeois Through and Through
- 5. End of the Affair
- 6. Hare
- 7. Homecoming
- 8. Mad Hordes
- 9. What Isak Would Know
- 10. Honest Abe Speaks
- 11. Ferries, Seagulls, Reporters
- 12. Triangle
- PART VI: THE DECISION
- 1. Wright Persuaded by Rockefeller
- 2. Code
- 3. Final Stroke
- 4. Target Practice
- 5. Valley Forge
- 6. Witch
- 7. The Collapse! Interview
- 8. Powerful Men
- 9. Nobody Feels It
- 10. Cinnamon & Smoke
- 11. Proposition
- 12. 17.5 Billion Years
- 13. Perverse
- 14. Requiem: The AI Guys
- SYNOPSIS
