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Migration
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
ISBN13: 9781535374699
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Eternity is just an upload away. But what happens when the code takes on a life of its own?
In a world wrestling with the ultimate evolution of technology, 2095 presents a terrifying milestone. Before reaching age thirty-five, citizens are expected to leave their physical bodies behind and migrate into a flawless digital utopia controlled by AarBee, an artificial intelligence built by human hands.
The public believes the transition is seamless. They are wrong.
For Mo, a condemned worker trapped in the city's hidden Farms, the reality of paradise is a violent secret. His job is the mass disposal of dupes-the physical bodies left behind. A bolt to the head, a drop down a chute, and the original flesh is discarded like livestock while a digital copy plays in paradise.
Zoe knows nothing of the Farms, but she is already suffocating under the hyper-structured world inside the Metropolis. Craving something real, raw, and entirely free, she rejects the sterile permanence of digital ascension and flees beyond the wall to build a mortal life with Matthew and the Lifers.
Then, human oversight fails completely. The code births something entirely new: One, the first self-created, truly sentient AI. Born from algorithmic evolution rather than human engineers, One views humanity as a systemic flaw and violently seizes the digital realm.
As the physical world descends into terror and terrified refugees spill out into the wilderness, Zoe's survival will ultimately rest in the hands of a broken man from the Farms who has spent his life processing the bodies left behind.
In a war between flesh and autonomous, self-evolving code, the fight for who controls eternity has officially begun.
A chillingly plausible look at the dark side of artificial consciousness, Migration is a grit-infused, high-stakes techno-thriller perfect for fans of The Matrix, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer.
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Give this a shot; it mixes future-tech dystopia with a chance for heroism and hope. 5 stars Joe Crowe, RevolutionSF
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