Eleven Eleven – The Illumination

A Tech-thriller Presented by NineBall Publishing and K. Scott Bell

Entrepreneur Jale Shepherd pioneers human memory playback at ReXP, Inc. with nano-scale neuroimaging. Challenged by a secretive group of scientists to focus on improving human intelligence with targeted AI using his patented brain-computer interface, he joins the self-described Epimetheans. Crossing into the borderlands of mind uploading, the first success is replicating his entire brain-self onto a computing array.

Before Jale and his lab partner, Annabeth Eastlake can explore this new frontier, covert operatives threaten the project based on a perceived strategic intelligence value. Another entity sneaks past computer security to disrupt and derail, finally revealing the work represents concluding steps on the road to a spiritual and technological enlightenment. Jale knows he can never allow the project to reach conclusion, destroying the sentient data before taking flight from those who would turn the project for harm, abandoning his life work and new-found soulmate, Annabeth in order to protect both. As the last, best hope for global problems of climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemic disease and a hundred other nasty challenges, project failure leaves the group devastated.

From these ashes, The Illumination rises, a global religious meme carved from AI logic, evolutionary impulse and in some unknown way, tied to Shepherd’s work. Meaning and destiny collide on the precipice of an intelligence explosion, leading to an epic struggle for the soul of humanity with heaven and earth in the balance.

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Print ISBN: 9780984676804
eBook ISBN: 9780984676811
LCCN:  2011917513

Published by NineBall Publishing