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The Wasting: Descent to the Cataclysm
With his science podcast ratings in the dumpster, Peter Scott just received a gift from heaven – Earth’s imminent destruction by alien marauders.
***** 4 books (1st 3 in series + bonus 'Infinity Curve'), 500+ thought-provoking pages of our dystopian world in two decades!
It's Boston 2037, and DNA is just another programming language. Conflicts between humans and hybrids, already peaking, go ballistic when an obelisk from space crash lands in Saskatchewan and warns of invasion.
Peter, along with Ears, his researcher, and Molli, his sound engineer and kung fu maven, are podcasting from Cambridge, a global center for technology. To improve ratings, they decide to go edgy, interviewing experts who propose radical defenses to the anticipated alien incursion.
Earth was already a roiling sea of turmoil. Technologies like CRISPR gene editing, anti-aging and AI brain-to-computer interfaces have become commonplace, causing humanity to rapidly diverge. Growing numbers of posthuman hybrids possess capabilities once imagined only in movies, and the speed of change terrifies many non-hybrids.
The obelisk threat becomes the final straw, causing a volatile cocktail of bigotry and anger to erupt in a world gone mad from an expected apocalypse. The team's podcasts seem to be adding to the hysteria, and someone is trying to stop them from airing the next one, even if it means murder.
Wondering about the social and scientific impact of gene engineering, anti-aging, and artificial intelligence? Then look no further than this apocalyptic series.
“When technological prowess outruns social progress, humanity loses its race.”
5 Stars***** Imminent Future, or Imminent Extinction? A fascinating leap into the imminent future...when Genetic Engineering and Genetic Modification have advanced astronomically (Goodreads).
***** 4 books (1st 3 in series + bonus 'Infinity Curve'), 500+ thought-provoking pages of our dystopian world in two decades!
It's Boston 2037, and DNA is just another programming language. Conflicts between humans and hybrids, already peaking, go ballistic when an obelisk from space crash lands in Saskatchewan and warns of invasion.
Peter, along with Ears, his researcher, and Molli, his sound engineer and kung fu maven, are podcasting from Cambridge, a global center for technology. To improve ratings, they decide to go edgy, interviewing experts who propose radical defenses to the anticipated alien incursion.
Earth was already a roiling sea of turmoil. Technologies like CRISPR gene editing, anti-aging and AI brain-to-computer interfaces have become commonplace, causing humanity to rapidly diverge. Growing numbers of posthuman hybrids possess capabilities once imagined only in movies, and the speed of change terrifies many non-hybrids.
The obelisk threat becomes the final straw, causing a volatile cocktail of bigotry and anger to erupt in a world gone mad from an expected apocalypse. The team's podcasts seem to be adding to the hysteria, and someone is trying to stop them from airing the next one, even if it means murder.
Wondering about the social and scientific impact of gene engineering, anti-aging, and artificial intelligence? Then look no further than this apocalyptic series.
“When technological prowess outruns social progress, humanity loses its race.”
5 Stars***** Imminent Future, or Imminent Extinction? A fascinating leap into the imminent future...when Genetic Engineering and Genetic Modification have advanced astronomically (Goodreads).
108 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 16, 2019
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Blade Cort
16 books2 followersThe music is about to stop in humanity's delicate dance of survival. While societal norms and rules stagnate, apocalyptic tech accelerates.
This species-threatening imbalance compels Blade Cort to expel inelegant genetic engineering science fiction and futuristic dystopian novels.
It began with nuclear and we're miraculously still here. Today we face far more economical scourges. Consider malicious genetic manipulation of microbes, synthetic forms of virulence riding on the wind, nanotech, and unfettered AI.
Blade's episodic stories spotlight humanity's fatal dichotomy: annihilation tech is being quickly democratized while social norms erode. Not the yin and yang interplay for successful species longevity.
Much of today's sci-fi has devolved into predictability with feckless superheroes and wearisome action masking the lack of creative thought. Why waste energy on such implausible futures when the next few years will allow off-kilter Johnnie in the basement lab next door to create great and terrible things that are so real?
Get Blade's latest FREE 5 book series at:
https://books2read.com/u/mZBExl
This species-threatening imbalance compels Blade Cort to expel inelegant genetic engineering science fiction and futuristic dystopian novels.
It began with nuclear and we're miraculously still here. Today we face far more economical scourges. Consider malicious genetic manipulation of microbes, synthetic forms of virulence riding on the wind, nanotech, and unfettered AI.
Blade's episodic stories spotlight humanity's fatal dichotomy: annihilation tech is being quickly democratized while social norms erode. Not the yin and yang interplay for successful species longevity.
Much of today's sci-fi has devolved into predictability with feckless superheroes and wearisome action masking the lack of creative thought. Why waste energy on such implausible futures when the next few years will allow off-kilter Johnnie in the basement lab next door to create great and terrible things that are so real?
Get Blade's latest FREE 5 book series at:
https://books2read.com/u/mZBExl
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June 9, 2019
THE WASTING is a fascinating leap into the imminent future (2037), when Genetic Engineering and Genetic Modification have advanced astronomically. Humans directly connected to knowledge and/or networked yo each other; mechanically-modified humans; and human-animal hybrids: all these "varints" are commonplace, yet their existence is a fount of social disruption. In addition, the technology to modify viruses and other potential weapons is widely available. When an alien obelisk crashes in remote Canada, widespread global panic is the tipping point for eventual human extinction.
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