Highest Ranking: 196 in Science-Fiction
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The cries of sorrow, the end of it all. They did this, in the name of survival. Lives were lost, protests spoken, but there was no prevail. After all, no sound can be heard in space.
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Billions of years in the future,
where, despite our efforts, the planet has become nearly inhabitable. Warfare has been a constant, and more than once humanity has attempted to start over, to create new technology from scratch. With it should've come peace. But instead, failure and death continued to reign.
Humans have also evolved to develop supernatural abilities, which only contributed to the slow technology climb, its constant downfall, and horrid over-pollution. Considering everything, scientists had to find the perfect planet for humans, somewhere away from the desolate Earth. Another place, another fresh start.
It's primitive, but the genetically modified and evolved race of today can rebuild society on a safer planet. You see, even if we could stay on Earth, there's a looming issue, one that's much bigger than our planet. The sun. Our beautiful, burning source of light. We need to evacuate before its death. We need to leave Earth behind. Maybe this new planet can be our home. Our world.
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Over 20 characters, a world set billions of years in the future, magic, aliens, and anything else you can imagine. There will be betrayal, power, kindness, and *hopefully* plenty of action.
A secret program in the United States seeks to replace human militaries with artificial intelligence-driven machines, but the machines aren't so willing to play along.
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Picture a world where humans no longer fight wars. No more families missing loved ones. No more veterans with lifelong mental and physical scars. No more conscription. For the super-secret End of War Project inside the United States government, such a reality is already here. The project models out how artificial intelligence can overcome dangerous and morally sensitive war scenarios with algorithms and automation. The centerpieces are "autonomous combat machines," or ACMs, that look like humans but function like supercomputers. After a string of brilliant successes in the field of combat, the End of War Project is preparing to reveal itself to the public, but something unusual stands in the way. Against their programming, the ACMs start exhibiting all-too-human signs of apprehension, guilt and compassion as they're pushed to perform ever more extreme tasks. The human leaders of the End of War Project race to find who "hacked" the ACMs, but what they find is even more startling--and revealing--than they could ever imagine.
***2019 Watty Award Winner - Science Fiction***