Accidental Intelligence
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4.9 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
"Accidental Intelligence is a faced-paced futuristic thriller shot through with elements of tech noir. Fun, thrilling, exciting!" - GoodReads Review
"Accidental Intelligence is like modernized noir meets action novel, in a futuristic setting. Again and again, this book delivers pops of detail that bring the world to life." - GoodReads Review
TALES FROM THE QUANTUM VAULT
In his debut novel, Bryan Chaffin transports us to the year 2139, where corporate combines have their own Senate seats, the surveillance-state is all-encompassing, humans live most of their lives in the Omninet, and sentient AIs are partners with the world government. It's not all bad, though. There are docbots, you never have to wait for a taxi, and if you can afford it, you can get your coffee made the old fashioned way, strained from the algae tanks.
ACCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE
Private detective Mason Truman is being yanked around by invisible strings, and it's an AI doing the yanking. Miranda. She's subtle. Crazy. And she thinks she can see the future. It's enough to drive Mason nuts. Miranda believes her fellow AIs are up to some kind of grand conspiracy against the Terran Republic, and she wants Mason's help proving it. Conspiracies are above Mason's pay grade, though, the kind of time-sink that can put a crimp in more serious pursuits. Like drinking coffee. And staying alive.
But Miranda won't take no for an answer. Mason can help or Miranda will make sure he becomes intimately acquainted with the finer conversational techniques of the secret police. So Mason digs until he uncovers a cache of stolen communications between a cabal of rogue AIs. They're planning what they call Eschaton—the divinely ordained end of humanity. Unless Mason and Miranda stop the arrogant pricks, the conspirators will destroy Earth.
Mason and Miranda have one chance, a way of bottling up the rogue AIs. All Mason has to do is lure the conspirators to the right spot in a sim world. That's how Mason learns that when Miranda said she needed help, what she meant was bait.
Customer Reviews
Sci-fi, Mystery, and a Little Dystopia All in a Must-read Package
Blending genres has the potential to short shrift at least one of them, but not in Accidental Intelligence. Bryan did an excellent job in blending mystery and sci-fi with a nice dash of dystopia in a wonderfully captivating story that left me wanting more. I say this as a compliment and without spoilers: One scene left me so uncomfortable that I felt like I should stop reading yet was compelled to keep reading. Few authors can toy with my emotions like that, and I was definitely hooked from beginning to end. I'm impatiently awaiting his next book.
First, I stopped reading SCI-FI years ago
Why? Because most of it is awful. But this? This is great. Imaginative, exciting, fun. I did not want it to end and I hope Bryan has more of it percolating.
If Apple TV doesn’t tempt Bryan with an offer of a series, the world is broken.
Excellent world built!
I just finished Accidental Intelligence and while the story wrapped up well, I can’t get enough of the world building the author created.
The story, which takes place in a future, not too far off from present, gives a glimpse into realistic extension of what “could be” as current world events continue.
The tongue and cheek comments on mergers and acquisitions were particularly amusing, CNNBC and AppleDisney, come to mind.
I am hoping the author releases a new book soon, so I can continue taking in this amazing world.