The Sentience Machine is Coming

I hope to be able to show you the cover for the second of my Rik Sylver novels sometime next week. The book – The Sentience Machine – is the sequel to The Credulity Nexus.

Two years have passed since Rik became involved in the credulity nexus affair and things are looking up for him – until his old nemesis, Rivers Valdinger, shows up with a message from Omega Point. Rivers is a “zombie” – the mind of a dead human uploaded into a powerful robot body. Omega Point is a “ghost farm” a satellite, orbiting the Sun, with the disembodied minds of 20,000 dead rich people living inside its virtual world. The message is that Omega Point is under attack by an unknown enemy and Martin Lanham, the uberghost who runs Omega Point, is holding one of Rik’s friends hostage until Rik finds out who the culprit is. Once again, Rik and Rivers become unlikely allies as they track down the perpetrator. Once again, they soon find themselves tangled up in a web of lies and misdirection, prejudice, deadly danger, and high-level corruption, as they stumble towards a discovery that neither of them could have foreseen.

If you’ve been following the saga of the cover for The Credulity Nexus, you’ll know that it recently had a makeover by Dwell Design & Press. This proved to be so popular, I’ve commissioned the second book’s cover from them too. As soon as it’s ready, you’ll be the first to see it.