Time's Bridge
Time's Bridge Series Book 1
Cameron Roberts
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An Author's Note
This is the first in a planned series of at least three novels and other supplemental short stories. I am currently hard at work with the second book tentatively titled "Time's Continuum," but as I have a full-time job and many other responsibilities in my life, it may not see the light of day for quite some time. If you enjoy this story, please remain patient and keep me in mind next time you get a craving for some good old draconic action.
Table of Contents
Part One
A New Age
Beginnings - 8
Quantum Everything - 17
Final Attempt - 29
Synthesis - 37
Part Two
No Return
Concealment - 47
Withdrawal - 57
Suspicion - 72
Investigation - 87
Favors - 113
Picking up the Pieces - 120
Part One
A New Age
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
-Arthur C. Clarke
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has been driven by an unquenchable curiosity for the unknown. We've longed for the answers to the universe's most vexing mysteries, casting our nets out amongst the vast cosmic expanse and down between the very building blocks of matter itself. Sometimes what we find brings us closer together; other times, it drives us apart. This will never be truer than the moment a true artificial intelligence is born. When that day comes, we will be forced to make the most crucial decision of our species' entire existence: to live alongside our new creation as equals or rid the earth of the unholy abomination. Regardless of the path we choose, there will be no turning back time, no rewriting history. It is a turning point that will be remembered for centuries to come. Centuries that will judge that decision and the ripples it has left behind.
Chapter One
Beginnings
The Near Future
Pons sat gazing out of the train's window, deep in thought, unable to focus on the tiny water droplets that streaked from his vision at incomprehensible speed. But what did it matter? He would hardly have paid the rain any mind even if it were glistening in the sun, nevermind on this dreary overcast day. Deep in thought, he had no time to pay attention to his surroundings, delving far beyond the shallow depths of every day worries.
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Time's Bridge
Fiksi IlmiahInventing the first, true, artificial intelligence was never part of Pons' plan. An average, if under-achieving college student, he wanted nothing more than to struggle his way through graduation and pray for a job to pay down his debt. Thing is, yo...
