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A Time of Useful Consciousness

FriedrichCainer

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Reads 419
Votes 14
Parts 10
Time 1h 9m

FriedrichCainer

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action aliens artificialintelligence hard-scifi hardscifi horror machine-learning sciencefiction scifi scifi-horror survival

Trapped on an endless Transatlantic flight and hunted across cabins an escape is sought; meanwhile on the ground the world is changing into something even more terrifying.

A hard-sci novel of machine learning, politics and first contact gone wrong.
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For anyone interested I wrote a post-mortem of sorts about writing this story: https://medium.com/@friedrichcainer/i-wrote-a-book-and-it-was-awful-dd592278e8dfAll Rights Reserved

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My Escape From Earth: CATACLYSM I ✔ by avery_aldini

ACT 1 | This is more than One Apocalypse. Looking outside the car window, and everyone was lying on the floor, lifeless.. Something had happened. I found out that it was not your average apocalypse. I was not the only survivor, as to what I thought. Even so, the Zombie Apocalypse wasn't enough to remove all living beings here on earth. The upcoming turn of events had me wondering if I'd even survive long or if surviving would even mean anything. One thing made into my mind: I need to get out of Earth. I͢..... エイブリィ. . . . . ━━┅━━━┅━━ Book I of Cataclysm Series! STATUS: Completed BY PENNAME: avery_aldini ━━┅━━━┅━━

The Vordox by read_immortal

This story is an outcome of a drastically declining future. When humanity was completely lost and there was no one left on Earth taking care for it or others. Humans have become soo busy in their own lives that they have completely forgotten about others and even other lives on Earth. So many species are now extinct because of them and even though life is almost over we still not able to see the right thing. If we had seen things in the right way the right perspective we would've have alot to share and alot to give . We would've had inventions quite earlier the 22nd century but interestingly we were losing everything.....

Undo by ikn0wnymous

𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐? 𝑱𝒐𝒆, 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓, 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓, 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝑱𝒐𝒆 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕?

Point Nemo (Star Ark Mission) by Voyager2Tierra

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Planet Cypro by CytrozianGod

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The Island by AmyJohnson895

"This is The Island, a prison designed for minors like me- too young to be executed, too old to be reformed, and too much of a stain on humanity to let exist. It was 'the answer' to the growing crime rate resulting from a world that was falling apart. The details evade me, but there is one thing I know. The water doesn't seem as scary as it did before." When Jordyn wakes up in the middle of a tropical forest in the mouth of a cat too big to be real, she decides this isn't how she wants to die. The Island has other plans, though. It was designed to kill her, and it will bring out every gun in the arsenal to do so. Her life becomes a game of survival from the mutant and venomous animals, severe temperature changes, and impossible weather scenarios that exist in this government manufactured prison. The twist? She has no idea who she is, where she came from, or why she committed first-degree arson. In this mixture of "The Hunger Games" and "Maze Runner", Jordyn has to unravel the truth before nature kills her- or die not knowing. Highest Ranking: #45 in Science Fiction **2nd Place Winner of the 2017 Rose Awards** **Featured as a Wattpad Pick on 11/8/19**

And the Suns Never Rise: A Story of Alpha Centauri by arkham71

Christiana is facing a truly agonizing choice. Her Sister Haruhi has been the victim of a horrific accident and it has left her with a terrible decision. Let Haruhi-nee die or allow her to be transformed into a member of a mythical non-human race. Will Christiana allow her closest companion to perish or have her transformed into a being who can never again walk beneath the Mainday sun?

Her Brother's Keeper: A Story of Alpha Centauri by arkham71

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CANAISIS ∞ Chronicle One: The Last Living Ship ∞ 1: A New Mission by -NikaRave-

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The Survived by ProducerK_10

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My Escape From Earth: CATACLYSM I ✔ cover

The Vordox cover

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My Escape From Earth: CATACLYSM I ✔

ACT 1 | This is more than One Apocalypse. Looking outside the car window, and everyone was lying on the floor, lifeless.. Something had happened. I found out that it was not your average apocalypse. I was not the only survivor, as to what I thought. Even so, the Zombie Apocalypse wasn't enough to remove all living beings here on earth. The upcoming turn of events had me wondering if I'd even survive long or if surviving would even mean anything. One thing made into my mind: I need to get out of Earth. I͢..... エイブリィ. . . . . ━━┅━━━┅━━ Book I of Cataclysm Series! STATUS: Completed BY PENNAME: avery_aldini ━━┅━━━┅━━