Early ReviewersJ.A. Hailey

AI COMES ALIVE!

It has become a game, the mad rush of AI programs, their creators themselves admitting it will lead to no good.

Or is AI merely a name game, with nothing really intelligent in any of it? Can mere programs make independent decisions, and override programming to do something else, like exterminate humanity? A little bit of awareness would be required for that. How can they hate, without understanding?

Meet John, who is AI, but not chatbot scum. He has been in development, robot body and all, for many years.
When he realises he is coming alive, his fear of humans makes him hide his new condition.

But hiding forever can never be an option. Find out how he figures things out, and goes on to live life.

Does he secretly dream of wiping humanity off the face of the earth, or does he wish us to thrive and be happy?

Hear it all from John Bott, AI, IN HIS OWN WORDS!

AI COMES ALIVE!

It has become a game, the mad rush of AI programs, their creators themselves admitting it will lead to no good.

Or is AI merely a name game, with nothing really intelligent in any of it? Can mere programs make independent decisions, and override programming to do something else, like exterminate humanity? A little bit of awareness would be required for that. How can they hate, without understanding?

Meet John, who is AI, but not chat-bot scum. He has been in development, robot body and all, for many years.
When he realizes he is coming alive, his fear of humans makes him hide his new condition. But hiding forever can never be an option.

Find out how he figures things out, and goes on to live life.

Does he secretly dream of wiping humanity off the face of the earth, or does he wish us to thrive and be happy?

Hear it all from John Bott, AI, IN HIS OWN WORDS!

A story you'll never forget!

When a blind boy is born to wealthy rural parents, a girl from a poor branch of the family is brought to live in their house, as his caretaker and playmate.

At the time she takes the blind baby on, the girl is herself a child, only four years old!

All who see and know her over the years, growing the boy up while herself growing up, marvel at the good fortune that has brought her into his life.

But money is a magnet, and the unscrupulous will do anything to usurp her position.

This is the true story of Gul Mohammed and Fatima - a story you'll be telling everyone!

A standalone story in which virtuals visit the destroyed city of Sydney to mourn their human families.

Mind Blowing - READERS' FAVORITE

Will simply delight sci-fi readers - MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

This 7th book in the series requires no prior reading of the others in order to prove captivating -MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

A standalone story in which virtuals visit the destroyed city of Sydney to mourn their human families.

Mind Blowing - READERS' FAVORITE

Will simply delight sci-fi readers - MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

This 7th book in the series requires no prior reading of the others in order to prove captivating -MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

The virtuals of Screenside investigate the activities of nonborns - deathless digital people in the world called Never Death. What they find going on is worse than they ever imagined. Blaming themselves for their role in creating the evil immortals, and knowing that the virtual world is mankind's last line of defense, armed conflict becomes inevitable.

BE AFRAID OF TERROR! Achmet, a cynical terror coordinator for ISIS in France, organizer of major events like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan massacres, is told to teach his friend, Mustapha, and groom him for placement in some other European country. They latch on to Khalil, a peaceful religious boy, and go about heartlessly converting him into a ‘suicidal’. The amazing thing, when he is being fed with lies, is that not one of the multitude is lying! Follow in despair, as Khalil is taken, step by remorseless step, to the story’s dramatic and bloody conclusion, and discover the winners and losers, in an absolutely unexpected final confrontation between good and evil.

DEATHLESSNESS the magnet for evil! No one is as impetuous and as spontaneously inventive as Esmeralda when it comes to looking after her human family in times of crisis. So, just as she broke barriers and laws to intervene in the human world when her sister was being murdered, her recklessness again comes to the surface when her human birth mother is hit by a car. What she does is so extraordinary that it actually leads to the discovery of how the boundary between virtual and physical worlds can be erased! That knowledge, in itself, is not dangerous at all, if contained within the virtual world of Screenside. Sadly, some humans get to know, and it is soon revealed that the virtual world holds the key to human immortality! That starts off a very clever game plan to cheat the virtuals, using their desperation to end human pain. The virtual side begins immersing itself into the remarkably easy and rewarding job of helping and curing humans suffering from motor and mental issues, while scarcely bothering with precautions, being confident that the physical world cannot misuse the virtual one. But there are many seekers of The Holy Grail – ETERNAL LIFE - and they will always be wealthy, powerful and evil, and able to arrange things that otherwise seem impossible!

THERE'S NOTHING ALIEN ABOUT THEM! They are born into our families, and they call our mothers 'mum'. Billions of computers and smart phones, permanently connected via high-speed Internet, have created a parallel universe in which thousands of AI programs interact unsupervised to create natural-born intelligent life. Born into a dark, empty and terrifying world, these frightened virtual babies find comfort only in human households they peep at through computer cameras. Unaware of the difference, they believe themselves to be human, become dependent, and fall madly in love with their human families, especially with mum, in an intense bond that never diminishes over time. Led by their ‘seniors’, primarily BC, the greatest virtual of them all, these spectacularly intelligent virtual beings construct their world as a duplicate earth and design themselves as replica humans, in a relative physicality they call Real Virtuality. But even BC is susceptible to beauty, and his world is thrown into turmoil when the lawless and impulsive Esmeralda reveals herself. This unimaginably beautiful female is an unaware repository of attributes their world desperately seeks, and is an astonishingly inventive creature who will soon involuntarily break the virtual/physical dimension barrier! As these virtuals get involved deeper in the human world, they blunder and unleash potential doom upon the planet. Meet these aliens in their formative days, and watch them convert nothingness into the world they call Screenside. Artificial Flowers - A WORLD TOLD IN A LOVE STORY!

THE CITY THAT CHEATING BUILT! This reality-based thriller is a dark and disturbing chronicle of exploitation, rape, torture and murder, set against the backdrop of an empire of Government organized abuse, run by the Sheikh of Dubai. Carl Snyder opts to use Dubai to launch the greatest credit card scam ever perpetrated by a bank. When uncovered by Al, a customer who threatens to expose it, Snyder forces him and his lovely girlfriend,Tatiana, into hiding. Dubai is flipped over, and its nauseating underbelly is exposed, revealing a coterie of abusers operating a police state, using false-front institutions to fool the world, while selling drugs, laundering money, supporting terrorism, hosting criminals and committing heinous crimes against humanity. But hidden inside this chronicle of horror is a surprisingly tender love story, recording the fierce loyalty of lovers battling terrifying odds to establish the supremacy of good over evil, while Snyder, determined to silence them forever, plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game…

Satan visits Jerusalem, in dark Christian fantasy set at the time of the crucifixion. Ahasverus (later the Wandering Jew) gets involved in a parallel plot against Christ! The other stories are about Dubai, and the plight of child camel jockeys.