Introducing Level Seven by William Ledbetter

“…a propulsive techno-thriller that steps outside the well-established tropes of a scientist struggling to save the world from being taken over by AIs who see no further need for humanity.” — Mike Finn’s Fiction
The thrilling final installment in the Killday Series by Nebula Award winning Author William Ledbetter
The brutal Kilburnites finally destroyed all Artificial Intelligences on Earth and reclaimed the planet for humanity. Or did they? Less than a year later, huge structures are growing amid the ruins of the once-great cities, and they aren’t being built by humans.
Abby Gibson and her AI partner Mortimer, who barely survived the purge on Earth by escaping to space, are again forced to fight for their lives. This time, the enemy is something they don’t understand from the cold vacuum of the asteroid belt, which has set a course to destroy the space habitat she calls home.
In Level Seven, the exciting culmination of the Killday series, human existence hangs by a thread as AIs strive to evolve into a super-intelligent god, and the survival of both species might come from their unlikely alliance.
“An excellent but surprisingly dark near-future SF.” — Alex ShvartsmanAbout the Author
William Ledbetter is a Nebula Award winning author with two novels and more than seventy speculative fiction short stories and non-fiction articles published in five languages, in markets such as Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Escape Pod and the SFWA blog. He’s been a space and technology geek since childhood and spent most of his non-writing career in the aerospace and defense industry. He is a member of SFWA, the National Space Society of North Texas, and a Launch Pad Astronomy workshop graduate. He lives near Dallas with his wife, a needy dog and three spoiled cats.
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