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Against the Machine: Evolution
by Brian Van Norman (Author)
$9.99
Earth 2212. With worsening climate and with their AI Silicons becoming sentient, those at the top of this distorted world have concocted a final solution for Earth. Four characters try to stop them. By the end they have altered the human/machine interface, so changing human evolution.
Description
Earth, 2212.
The novel, third in the AGAINST THE MACHINE trilogy, (connected by the human/machine interface over 400 years) yet free standing on its own, tells of two societies amid catastrophic climate change. Multiple climatic disasters have caused waste zones, massive forest fires, ocean flooding, desertification, and enormous migrations in search of sustenance. Billions have died. The minority of those remaining inhabit MEGs, former cities transformed by technology into huge protective domes. With the use of nano technology, AI intelligence, and Silicon droids to serve them and suppress those outside the walls of their crystalline domes, all seems well for those within the protected CORPORATE.
It is not. With worsening climate, the MASS (the second society) living outside the MEGs, has become increasingly restive and with their AI Silicons (the third society) becoming sentient, the Select must leave the planet. The Dì yī Select (the Corporate), those at the top of this distorted world, have concocted a complex and final solution for Earth, destroying it as they leave so as not to be followed in future by Silicons.
Four protagonists: Ke Hui Feng 第一Ψ, a fourteen-year-old Dì yī Select apprentice, Ayrian Mellor 第二ꬰ, a famed Commander in the game called BATL, Ping Wang Min 第四Ω, a Quantum Psychoanalyst and Otsi’tsa Zaharie大众o, a sixteen year old indigenous warrior forced to move from her native lands. Each character is from a separate segment of this world, yet eventually they come together to try to prevent the CORPORATE plan. By the end they have evoked a much different ending than the one expected, altering the human/machine interface, so changing human evolution.
Publisher Name : Guernica Editions Inc.
Publication Year : 2025
ISBN : 978177183443
Awards or Recognitions : Impact Internationa (ScienceFiction), Global Book Awards
Reader Testimonials / Reviews :
BRIAN VAN NORMAN, AUTHOR OF “AGAINST THE MACHINE: EVOLUTION” (GUERNICA EDITIONS 2023) Three highly acclaimed novels currently on the market: AGAINST THE MACHINE: LUDDITES ( Yorkshire 1812) and AGAINST THE MACHINE: MANIFESTO (Waterloo, Canada 2012) and AGAINST THE MACHINE: EVOLUTION (Toronto Meg,2212), all standalone novels, yet parts of my trilogy on the theme of human/machine interface over 400 years. The Sunday Times called it “A UNIQUE ENDEAVOUR…” Through my extensive travels I observed with alarm how the Earth is in climate crisis. I saw some transformations in person and read extensively to discover the potential results of this calamity: desertification, flooding, and human tribalism. Through my earlier research of artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics I learned the concept of artificial consciousness, also known as machine consciousness. I learned too of the human fear of being replaced by androids. I hoped to bring readers an approximation of what could happen to Earth in a mere 200 years. I knew I was going to push borders. Accustomed to historical fiction (LUDDITES) and contemporary literary style (MANIFESTO), I’d never written speculative fiction and discovered it required even more research and concentration than other genres I’ve employed. To understand this style and genre, I read every book of speculative fiction I could find, gradually discovering a voice through a mix of other authors’ styles. Yet I wanted something different. I wanted to write a trilogy with three stand alone novels to be read without having to ‘catch up’ by reading the others. With AGAINST THE MACHINE: EVOLUTION (2212) I believe I have accomplished what I set out to do 8 years ago/
