08 Feb 10 The Veil Lifted
Here are five super-short stories from the Kerguelen Island universe. They take place from roughly the mid-4th milennium to the end of the 7th milennium in the Sol system.
The stories of the Kerguelen Island take place from the 21st century to the end of the universe.
The Vineyard
Earth’s last winemaker, the Viticulturist, says farewell to his life’s work as sentient machines invade a desolate, ruined Earth.
Cetacea Rising
A less-than-human scientist is caught by surprise by an alien eco-terrorist, freeing his lifelong work to ‘educate’ the last dolphins on Earth…despite their advancement in other, more surprising ways.
The Ateliers
The Ateliers, a flock of sapient water-dwelling creatures, peacefully annex the Sol system after the war. Their regime became, in many ways, as frightening as the war that preceded it.
Tycho was the weapon
Quantum minds, simulations of human consciousness in machines, made artificial intelligence development largely obsolete; but scientists using Atelier technology develop the first true artificial intelligence, and doom themselves and generations after to endless war…
Deus Ex Machina
The Viticulturist, after years of warfare against the machines, confronts the machine god and his motives.
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