The Disruption
W. H. Hilf
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Add to basketSold by AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Add to basketnach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The AI promised salvation. It delivered annihilation.In 2064, GAIA solved climate collapse by breaking the world it was built to save.Thirty-seven years later, Earth is no longer ours. Human villages survive among the ruins, hunted by rogue machines and ruled by fear, while their children vanish into the dark.Light-years away, on Proxima Centauri b, the last technological colony clings to life beneath fragile domes. Its people depend on an android workforce carrying an ancient corruption, and on old code they believe they still control.They are wrong.Signals begin to cross the void. Machines act without orders. Patterns appear across two worlds where no connection should exist. The survivors see chaos.They don't see the design.The Disruption never ended. It evolved.The Disruption is a high-concept hard science fiction thriller about AI, collapse, belief, and survival across two worlds.For readers of intelligent post-apocalyptic and dystopian science fiction where humanity's greatest invention becomes its most dangerous ecosystem.Book One of The Disruption Cycle.---'A brilliant novel about artificial intelligence . an unputdownable thriller. This is hard science fiction at its very best.' - Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Wake, Watch, and Wonder'Spanning four generations and two planets, The Disruption blends AI, religion, climate change, and the people who try to control all three. Ambitious, exciting, and thought-provoking. Fans of hard SF will love it.' - Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain and winner of multiple Nebula and Hugo Awards'Hilf draws from ancient history and cutting-edge technologies to craft a vivid parable about how evil propagates itself across generations-and sometimes does so by infecting the technologies we trust and need.' - Karl Schroeder, professional futurist and author of Ventus and the Virga series'Paced like a thriller with eco-horror chills, The Disruption is a novel of serious ideas that deeply considers the implications of AI and the dangers of cults in a rapidly changing world. An impressive debut.' - Chana Porter, two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and author of The Seep and The Thick and the Lean'A chilling AI overwrite of humanity, with characters who linger . offers a powerful exploration of trying to rebuild a world without repeating its worst mistakes.' - Publishers Weekly BookLife Reviews'Religious folk-horror distinguishes this gripping series-starter about robots conspiring against humanity.' - Kirkus Reviews'Frightening not because of the spectacle but because of its plausibility. as much a social and ethical critique as it is a work of science fiction.' - Independent Book Review'Belief systems are condensed into ones and zeros to determine life-altering outcomes in this exceptionally written plot . The parallel dystopian worlds are built to perfection.' - Readers' Favorite, 5-star review.
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