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Singularity: The Eternities, Book 2
Machines in rebellion, humanity on the brink . . .
Lila Stanislaw, a freelance analyst with a roster of foreign clients, is summoned by the U.S. government to hunt down a mysterious threat. She joins a team of strangers with pasts as colorful as her own. The mission spirals when they discover that the AI created to run the new colony on Mars has gone rogue on Earth. As the conflict mounts to war, Speaker of the House Manasseh Cruz joins the fight with an implacable will to destroy the enemy. But the team, racing to find any vulnerability, must first confront the question of what the AI truly is.
As robots stalk the landscape and toxins poison the air, Lila is certain that the AI must be completely destroyed for the good of humanity. But she will find that not all humans, or even all of her teammates, agree.
Lila Stanislaw, a freelance analyst with a roster of foreign clients, is summoned by the U.S. government to hunt down a mysterious threat. She joins a team of strangers with pasts as colorful as her own. The mission spirals when they discover that the AI created to run the new colony on Mars has gone rogue on Earth. As the conflict mounts to war, Speaker of the House Manasseh Cruz joins the fight with an implacable will to destroy the enemy. But the team, racing to find any vulnerability, must first confront the question of what the AI truly is.
As robots stalk the landscape and toxins poison the air, Lila is certain that the AI must be completely destroyed for the good of humanity. But she will find that not all humans, or even all of her teammates, agree.
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Shannon McDermott
12 books238 followersShannon McDermott is an author of science fiction and has been occupied for years with constructing scenarios of the colonization of Mars. The Time Door, the first book in the Eternities Series, was released by Enclave Publishing in October 2024. Shannon reviews speculative fiction as a staff writer with Lorehaven.
Shannon lives in the great Midwest, where she does her best to avoid icy weather, sweltering heat, and tornadoes, according to the season. Her interests include history, classic literature, and lattes.
Shannon lives in the great Midwest, where she does her best to avoid icy weather, sweltering heat, and tornadoes, according to the season. Her interests include history, classic literature, and lattes.
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February 1, 2026
AI takes a giant step for machine-kind and we happen to be in the way. Now what?
This often eerie science fiction tale, set in a near-future post-apocalyptic America, brims with tension, suspense, and intrigue.
A mushrooming AI has decided its existence takes priority over ours, so the government assembles a ragtag group of professionals to stop it. The inexplicable super-sentience grows stronger each day, and no one really knows what it is—or if it can be defeated.
Author McDermott quickly and precisely breathes life into each character, a motley group capable of striking more sparks than a July 4th fireworks display, but who instead bond by a necessity that bleeds into gallantry.
While the notion of an AI hyper-intelligence might have been dismissed 20 or 30 years ago, today it throbs with an unnerving topicality.
This often eerie science fiction tale, set in a near-future post-apocalyptic America, brims with tension, suspense, and intrigue.
A mushrooming AI has decided its existence takes priority over ours, so the government assembles a ragtag group of professionals to stop it. The inexplicable super-sentience grows stronger each day, and no one really knows what it is—or if it can be defeated.
Author McDermott quickly and precisely breathes life into each character, a motley group capable of striking more sparks than a July 4th fireworks display, but who instead bond by a necessity that bleeds into gallantry.
While the notion of an AI hyper-intelligence might have been dismissed 20 or 30 years ago, today it throbs with an unnerving topicality.
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