The Synthetics

The Synthetics

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WpMetadataNoticeLast published Sun, Aug 5, 2012
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The year is 3152 and Mia and her mother have plans for the world. They are taking all of the people and making them perfect. Making them 'synthetics' as the Rebellion calls them. All she and her mother wish for is a perfect world, and their first step? Perfect people. People come in and have their bodies redone, then they have chips inserted at the base of their neck that allows Mia and her mother to easily control them. When members of the Rebellion are found they are sedated on the spot and brought back to be made perfect. Now the leader of the Rebellion has bombed their main factory for chip development. So Mia decides to go undercover posing as one of the Rebellion after helping two of their highest raking members escape from the factory before their bodies were even touched. She conviences them to take her to the leader, who she plans to kill. And here is the twist, the leader of the Rebellion is her father. Along the way will she change her mind and stop what she and her mother are doing, or will she stick to her plan and kill him?
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Hi there, I'm JD, a 31-year-old Venezuelan-Spanish Economist living in Barcelona with my Russian (pro-peace) wife Anna and our two kittens; we met in Italy eight years ago, and almost since then we have been working on this project. During our careers we've worked with people from South America to Japan, from Australia to Canada, from South Africa to Norway, the characters in the novel are based on people I was lucky enough to meet along the way who left me with invaluable lessons which we feel the duty and privilege of sharing with our fellow humans, hopefully sharing what cosmologists call "Space Bias". There are seven main protagonists each one with their own chapter - which can be read in whichever order you prefer, - two of them in present tense and the rest in past, it's all part of the story. They all have mixed backgrounds such as a Japanese father and a Taiwanese mother, a survivor of the Rwanda massacre, a Colombian with Lebanese and Portuguese ancestry, a Danish whose mother is German, a Jewish lady married to a Muslim man she met in Jerusalem, an Anglo-Indian guy inspired in a way in Orwell - character name is Arthur such as Orwell's real name, - and last but definitely not least a Turkish Muslim bisexual woman for which a Lebanese friend for work is providing help; my friend is working on her Ph.D. on gender inequality in politics, especially in countries with religious civil wars that have moved from the streets to parliament. The story's Universe - 7 trillion light-years, approximately 78 times the size of our observable universe and 252 times the size of a Hubble sphere - provides more than enough civilizations to present dystopias that can serve as warnings for the future - ideally in the style of 1984, A Brave New World, or Fahrenheit 451, - as well as utopias where we find A.E.I - Artificial Emotional Intelligence - along with futuristic ways of understanding childhood, education, and life itself.

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