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The notion that I would live forever first struck me when I was a boy.
Dad took me for a ride, but I hadn't realized how far-gone his mind was until it was too late. The impact rocked the truck, and both of us flew forwards through the windshield, shattering the glass. I watched him die and I should've been dead, too.
But I wasn't—because of what I like to call my "immortality," my uncanny ability to quickly regenerate cells.
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Thirty years ago the corporation stole an infant Alice from her family and brought her to Quinto, where they spent the next few years trying to make her into the perfect soldier for their corporate wars. Now free of the corporation's control, Alice will embody the ancient Greek Moon Goddess and hunt down the corrupt Arricebo Corp and have her revenge for what they did to her and her family, even if it's the last thing she does. Will it be?
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50 years ago we created technology that allowed us to gaze into a parallel earth where medical technology had advanced well beyond our own. Of all the inventions we stole from them, Medical Nanites have been the most powerful; making any disease curable and surgery all but obsolete. But what happens when we try to improve on our pilfered tech?
Sky City: The Transhuman Revolution, by Riksta10001
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WARNING: Contains strong violence and scenes that readers may find upsetting. Recommended for ages 18 and over.
'My name is Leo Jardine. I am an orphan from the slums of Medio city who chose military life as a way to escape extreme poverty. Some choice that turned out to be. I always knew our leaders were bastards, but when San Teria decided to invade our nation's great rival Nyberu, and the wider world, I discovered just how ruthless they are.
'The so-called Great War has been raging for nearly two years. It took about a week for me to lose count of the soldiers and civilians killed before my eyes. When I was stationed on the STS Cheriton, I thought it would make a nice break from the dodging of bullets and the sight of corpses. If only military life was that simple.'
The Transhuman Revolution is a prequel to book one in the Watty winning Sky City series. It is set sixteen years before events in The Rise of an Orphan in the land of Nusantara where cybernetic augmentations are common-place. Technological advances offer a stark contrast to the living conditions of the impoverished masses who must upgrade to improve their chances of survival.
The Great War has been raging for two years and Nusantara is struggling to maintain its neutral status, given the threat it faces. Disaffected Anatolian soldiers are going AWOL, united by their hatred for the ruling San Teria party whose theocracy triggered nuclear Armageddon. Treason becomes the only option because the future of humanity is hanging by a thread. And thus The Rebellion is born.
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In the times of the transhumans...
The human upgrade economy is in full swing. Life has never been better. "What did people do before you could be anything you wanted to be?" asks Doc Holiday's assistant. "I have no idea. Must have been a hell of an existence," she replies.
Doc Holiday is the Sister Theresa of her times, handing out new leases on life to military vets with PTSD, and new limbs in the form of cybernetic enhancements. From her seat at the head of New York's premier upgrade hospital, she oversees all chiphead implants. She also supervises the advancements to mindchips that allow humans to adapt to any new task on the fly in order to keep up with a supercharged economy driven by the chipheads themselves.
But the chipheads who have officially kicked off Singularity, a time characterized most of all by a post-exponential rate of change, unwittingly open the lid on Pandora's Box. The question is, can she and her long-term on and off again lover, private dick, Rake Madden, close the lid in time before the runaway effects destroy them all?
With the most advanced mindchip ever made, created for him by the open-source coalition, Rake devotes himself to unearthing conspiracies against the public interest. He fears unscrupulous individuals and coalitions are finding it ironically easy to get the best of the upgraded humans who delight too much in creating new worlds to worry much about who's in charge of this one and what they're doing to the present. That's the loophole that needs closing if Singularity is not to become a progressive Apocalypse.
