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Android Run
The public sees Julian — a silver-skinned Nearly Human android who's the President's chief policy adviser — as a sweet-natured, noble innocent. But behind the scenes, Julian employs murder, blackmail, and manipulation in a relentless quest to gain total power for himself. He amasses a string of successes as he works to link up with other Nearly Beings around the globe for ultimate absolute control.
Can our heroes — a congresswoman, a Secret Service agent, and the CIA director — stop him?
ANDROID RUN combines sci-fi, political thriller, and satire into a high-energy tale set in the 2040s, hurdling forward with scenes from Washington, DC to Alaska, California to Cuba, on themes directly relevant to vicious political division in Washington, and the role of AI in our national life.
“Geitner Simmons' ANDROID RUN does an amazing job blending in the real-world partisan and selfish dysfunctions of Washington, DC with a futuristic life involving diabolical androids, artificial intelligence, and implanting computer chips to control human behavior. Like today, though, character, love of country, and decency are the qualities that are needed, and readers will root for those virtues to prevail as this roller-coaster story reaches its conclusion.”
— Congressman Don Bacon, Nebraska 2nd District; Brig Gen (Ret)
“ANDROID RUN is a rollicking political romp that will have you laughing out loud. Filled with charming scoundrels, this is satire at its best. Highly recommended!”
— Kathleen O'Neal Gear, New York Times bestselling author of 52 historical fiction and thrillers
“ANDROID RUN rip-roaringly gets both politicians and androids exactly right — one group is a bunch of dangerous soulless creatures threatening the planet; the others are androids.”
— John Bicknell, senior editor, 2016 & 2018 “The Almanac of American Politics”
ANDROID RUN takes familiar scenes and adds new, extraordinary A U.S. House so outrageously dysfunctional and violence-prone — among the lawmakers themselves — that the Speaker approves the ultimate emergency Measure 22. Plus, calamitous surprises at the national political conventions. Android-vs-android testimony before Congress. A mind-bending State of the Union Address like no other. Personal upheavals due to Sky, the wildly popular hallucinogenic drug. A secession crisis in the Pacific Northwest that provokes direct presidential intervention. A tense U.S.-Russian summit that ends with a shocking result.
Julian is at the heart of the story throughout, including when his pet project, the Peace Chip, plunges the administration into controversy.
As a group of House members join together across party lines to try to restore stability to Congress, Representatives Tommy Pettigrew, a conservative, and Lauren Miles, a trans progressive, look past their political differences to become close friends through their love of music — only to have one of Julian's schemes plunge their friendship into crisis.
A unique combination of AI-focused science fiction, political thriller, and satire, ANDROID RUN is the kind of novel that would have resulted had Isaac Asimov, Robert Ludlum, Rod Serling, and Douglas Adams gotten together for a drunken weekend to dream up a one-of-a-kind genre mashup. Suspenseful, thought-provoking, hilarious, riveting — ANDROID RUN is one wild ride.
Can our heroes — a congresswoman, a Secret Service agent, and the CIA director — stop him?
ANDROID RUN combines sci-fi, political thriller, and satire into a high-energy tale set in the 2040s, hurdling forward with scenes from Washington, DC to Alaska, California to Cuba, on themes directly relevant to vicious political division in Washington, and the role of AI in our national life.
“Geitner Simmons' ANDROID RUN does an amazing job blending in the real-world partisan and selfish dysfunctions of Washington, DC with a futuristic life involving diabolical androids, artificial intelligence, and implanting computer chips to control human behavior. Like today, though, character, love of country, and decency are the qualities that are needed, and readers will root for those virtues to prevail as this roller-coaster story reaches its conclusion.”
— Congressman Don Bacon, Nebraska 2nd District; Brig Gen (Ret)
“ANDROID RUN is a rollicking political romp that will have you laughing out loud. Filled with charming scoundrels, this is satire at its best. Highly recommended!”
— Kathleen O'Neal Gear, New York Times bestselling author of 52 historical fiction and thrillers
“ANDROID RUN rip-roaringly gets both politicians and androids exactly right — one group is a bunch of dangerous soulless creatures threatening the planet; the others are androids.”
— John Bicknell, senior editor, 2016 & 2018 “The Almanac of American Politics”
ANDROID RUN takes familiar scenes and adds new, extraordinary A U.S. House so outrageously dysfunctional and violence-prone — among the lawmakers themselves — that the Speaker approves the ultimate emergency Measure 22. Plus, calamitous surprises at the national political conventions. Android-vs-android testimony before Congress. A mind-bending State of the Union Address like no other. Personal upheavals due to Sky, the wildly popular hallucinogenic drug. A secession crisis in the Pacific Northwest that provokes direct presidential intervention. A tense U.S.-Russian summit that ends with a shocking result.
Julian is at the heart of the story throughout, including when his pet project, the Peace Chip, plunges the administration into controversy.
As a group of House members join together across party lines to try to restore stability to Congress, Representatives Tommy Pettigrew, a conservative, and Lauren Miles, a trans progressive, look past their political differences to become close friends through their love of music — only to have one of Julian's schemes plunge their friendship into crisis.
A unique combination of AI-focused science fiction, political thriller, and satire, ANDROID RUN is the kind of novel that would have resulted had Isaac Asimov, Robert Ludlum, Rod Serling, and Douglas Adams gotten together for a drunken weekend to dream up a one-of-a-kind genre mashup. Suspenseful, thought-provoking, hilarious, riveting — ANDROID RUN is one wild ride.
441 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2023
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