IT’S HERE!!!
The Gaia Paradox, the third and final book in the Voyages of the Delphi series is now published.
“An engaging read, particularly for those interested in AI, androids, and artificial environments.” Kirkus Reviews
A superintelligent AI, developed by DARPA, the United States’ Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, was designed to make America stronger than any other nation. To ensure its safety, Trudy Jamison instructed it to “uphold humanity’s highest values” as its highest priority. The Ai quickly realized that the greatest threat to upholding humanity’s highest values were humans themselves. Using a lethal virus, it wiped out the entire human race, and replaced them with high-minded AIs like itself.
Fast-forward 200 years. The whole solar system is inhabited by superintelligent AIs, who are poised to explore the stars. When they need assistance defending themselves against a mutant form of their own machine race, they dig up an AI from the past—Ezekiel, who was an exact copy of the brain of the human who created it. So begins the saga of the crew of the starship, Delphi, which includes Ezekiel, plus six other AIs, and, eventually, a female human empath from another planet.
The Gaia Paradox is the third book in the series, but also a completely stand-alone novel. After saving the civilization on the planet Clellon from the avaricious and aggressive Travolians, who want to steal its mineral resources—all of which happens in Prime Directive, the second book in the series—the crew of the Delphi arrive on the planet Travoli to negotiate with the Travolians to avoid war. They find a planet of advanced humans who are served by mindless, docile robots, who carry out all the labor and necessary functions to keep their civilization running. In the midst of their visit, they are asked to travel to a distant asteroid where a group of Travolian spaceships have encountered a deadly virus that causes them to become cannibals and attack each other. Only the Delphi is fast enough to reach the asteroid before all the humans are dead.
The mysterious asteroid turns out to be a hollowed out generation starship, and when the Delphi arrives, the crew must try to save the last three remaining Travolians, cure the deadly disease that caused the Travolians to become cannibals, and figure out what to do with 400 fetuses, the only surviving members of the race that inhabited the asteroid and are in suspended animation.
The Gaia Paradox weaves science, adventure, aritificial intelligence and questions of morality into a highly readable, mind-challenging story that might be a metaphor for our own civilization in the 21st century. It’s a fast-moving exciting read, but one packed with ideas—scientific, philosophical and ethical—that will not just entertain, but will make the reader think.
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