by David A. Eubanks
Published 2012(?)(possibly a bit earlier)
A growing series of sci-fi novels and shorter pieces set in the
medium-future, where gene-hacking and artificial intelligence are
routine, and the fine workings of human civilization have come to the
brink of collapse because of the Waves of viruses like mySARS that
circle the globe.
Citizens of the Queen City are lucky. At least they have walls and masks
and MOM to protect them. But MOM means monitoring, and the cameras never
blink, never lie, and can’t be bribed.
For a newly-minted artificial intelligence, it’s not enough to find a
job to pay for all the CPU Time you’re burning, you have to figure out
how to predict what the humans will do next. And when your boss can wipe
your personality back to noob-nous for any reason, you can’t make
mistakes. But being new means making a lot of mistakes.
This page exists as a mirror, because the original homepage was down for a long time. The ePub files above are unmodified from another mirror: https://gryder.org/lifeartificial/
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Original homepage: http://lifeartificial.com/ (domain expired. Update 2026:
it’s up again!)
Original homepage: https://archive.ph/YNRXV (archived)
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22591534-life-artificial
CC wiki: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Life_Artificial