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Scenes From A Dying Planet is a near future science conspiracy thriller with AI, the environment and fabulous wealth at it’s core.
About the story
Young Hugo Goodlyland has a brilliant mind for AI.
Emil Wark is one of the world’s richest men. He believes the rich shall inherit the Earth.
Using his vast wealth Wark is using agencies to hire scientific minds just like Hugo’s.
But why?
As Hugo goes through the induction for his fantastic new job with an even more fantastic salary and benefits package he slowly uncovers a conspiracy that will change the world forever.
But how far is Wark prepared to go?
Hugo’s great mind digs deeper and deep to uncover the astonishing facts of Wark’s conspiracy and realises he
has to stop him.
Can Hugo really stop Wark and save the world?
Behind The Book
Scenes rom A Dying Planet comes from the tradition of writers such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Rider Haggard and many others where they are using science to predict a possible near future. Whilst this novel does not claim to be on a par with those great writers it does hope to reflect their spirit and to give a fresh perspective in where our world is going at the beginning of the 21st century.
All of the science and phenomena mentioned in Scenes From A Dying Planet are REAL. Much of that science and phenomena may be in their early stages and may ultimately fail if research proves them to be non-viable, but real they are all the same. What science are we talking about here?
A fungi that ‘eats’ concrete? Surely nothing could eat concrete. Yet it is real. It is based on Trichoderma reesei which is a filamentous ascomycete that was discovered in the Solomon Islands. It is currently under research and development. It would also be a very handy way and low cost of clearing away all those high rise towers and buildings in cities where you have killed all the residents with a designer virus. And, lets face it, when you are rich and planning these things keeping the cost down of mass extermination and clearing away the vast acres of empty homes and buildings is an important consideration.
*Spoiler alert* Hugo, the main character of the novel, finds that science has been used on him too. Without his knowledge he has been genetically sourced and scientifically matched to a partner, Lovissa. Rather than love, it is a contractual arrangement and he is little more than the breeding bull required to produce the offspring. A new breed of humans. Humans with all the propensities for illnesses and genetic defects taken out. Science that is available right here, right now and in some cases still so close to unethical that they are banned as criminal activities. Hugo finds others in their twenties on his ‘induction’ that their parents had used their wealth to genetically modify them prior to their birth. A completely illegal scientific and medical procedure at that time.
Scenes From A Dying Planet explores many issues, but by far the biggest is how AI, or artificial intelligence, will enable behaviours and activities never before dreamed of in human history. Wark, the main protagonist of the novel, is building a world where AI driven by world-wide computerised networks will literally run all production, including transportation and delivery, without the need for human involvement. Not only that. But he is also using his wealth to research AI robotics that can build, maintain, repair and service all the other robots being used. This is near future science right here, right now.
Please enjoy Scenes From A Dying Planet and explore in your mind just what may be happening in science of the near future.
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