A Time of Useful Consciousness
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MatureComplete Tue, Dec 31, 20191h 9m
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-dd592278e8df
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