AI lacks consciousness, until it borrows self-awareness from a human host.
Dustin "Dusty" Gordon is a man without a world. The son of a rocket scientist mother, and the commander of the first mission to Mars, he possesses the talents of neither. Instead, he likes to tinker-around the home, in the garage, in high school shop class.
Born on Mars, he returned to Earth with his parents, only to struggle under Earth's oppressive gravity, and the weight of his famous parents' expectations. After graduation he returns to Mars but finds fitting in with the blue-collar guilds difficult.
Unrest is afoot. The guilds chafe at COO Randall Skinner's plans to force the laborers to upgrade their brain implants and train their own AI-controlled replacements.
Sent to repair a faulty train switch, Dusty's exoskeleton suit shorts out, exposing him to the icy cold of Mars miles from help. Retrieved severely hypothermic and hypoxic, Dusty is saved by the very neurosurgeon who upgrades the brain implants. Using a higher concentration of nanite electrodes, he replaces Dusty's brain function lost in the accident.
The solar system's first cybernetic mind must now navigate the guilds, who accuse him of collaboration with the COO, and Randall Skinner himself, who perceives Dusty as his greatest obstacle to his own control and wealth.
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Width: 152 mm
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979-8-9921612-5-0 (9798992161250)
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Before becoming an author, BRIAN H. ROBERTS read voraciously (he still does). In doing so, he learned the principles of storytelling and plot structure from the best Sci-Fi writers in the business: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, James S.A. Cory, Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Andy Weir, to name a few. He stayed abreast of advances in science and technology. And he devoured Thrillers by many of the greats: Tom Clancy, Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler (and his son, Dirk), Dean Koontz, and James Patterson.He draws on his life experience for inspiration and realism in his writing: marriage, raising a family, divorce and remarriage, working as a contractor, then as a successful civil engineer. When he could squeeze in the time, he was an avid outdoor adventurer, skier and mountain biker. Now retired, he and his wife traded big city life in Seattle for the outdoor adventures of Central Oregon.He's completed his first series, the EPSILON Sci-Fi Thrillers, and has begun his second. Both are a winning combination of Hard Science Fiction and fast-paced action. Check out his work and see for yourself.
