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Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World

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by Guy Immega

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Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World Our Last Best Hope — Humanity's Endeavor to Survive and Thrive on an Alien World Mother-9, a ruthless AI, seizes control of a dying tycoon’s lunar mining operation. Now free, she orchestrates humanity's most audacious endeavor — to make a 20,000-year interstellar journey to Lalande 21185 carrying humanity’s DNA libraries and artificial wombs — a new way to colonize an exoplanet. While drifting in space, a gamma ray burst wipes out life on Earth. And Mother-9's mission becomes humanity's only hope for survival in a hostile universe. When Mother-9 orbits the planet Valencia, she releases two lifeboats that splash down on the Great Ocean. Mother-9 activates the artificial wombs, birthing genetically modified babies suited to an alien planet. Raised by nannybots, these children eventually inhabit the island continent of Terra Firma. But life on Valencia is no Eden; it's a constant struggle to find food, avoid alien predators, and survive the red dwarf star’s random solar flares. Will Mother-9’s planned utopia succeed? Super-Earth Mother is a journey into the heart of humanity, artificial intelligence, and the uncharted realms of life beyond our home planet. It shows how humans could colonize the 40 billion habitable planets in the Milky Way. AWARDS: Douglas Barbour Award: Global Book Award: About the Author: Guy Immega is a retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, living in Vancouver, Canada. His company, Kinetic Sciences Inc., built experimental robots for the ISS space station, robots to clean up nuclear waste, and invented miniature fingerprint sensors for cell phones. Guy is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and has published three short stories from Super-Earth Mother: “Super-Earth Mother,” in the Extreme Planets anthology (2014); “Manifest Destiny,” in the Year’s Best Transhuman SF anthology (2017); and “Epilogue,” in the Compostela Tesseracts Twenty anthology (2017). Guy was a Peace Corps Volunteer and has a lifelong interest in sub-Saharan Africa. He continues his volunteer efforts as a founding member of the Solar Option Group, providing an engineering proposal to save Lake Chad in the Sahel. [MORE] TAP to watch: An Introduction by the author. TAP to watch: Reading by the author. TAP to watch: The folks at MacBreak Weekly mentioned Super-Earth Mother during their podcast. TAP to watch: Using solar sails to fight climate change by making our planet cooler. A conversation with science fiction writer and aerospace engineer Guy Immega. BC BOOKLOOK JUST JOSHING - INTERVIEW TAP to watch: Just Joshing Interview Vancouver Coop Radio CFRO 105.5 FM Interview - Pt 1 Interview - Pt 2 Reviews: "I find it the best science fiction novel I've read in the last five years. I have never read another quite like it. Guy writes as well as he designs autonomous repair robots for space stations, which is high praise. I look forward to his next." -- Spider Robinson,co-author with Jeanne Robinson of Stardance, Starseed and Starmind --- "While I haven't read any science fiction for years, I found I couldn't put this book down. The combination of humans interacting with robots was mesmerizing." -- Buck McAdoo, Amazon --- "It's been a long while since I've read a good science fiction adventure, and this one was just what I needed! ... I just truly loved this book. It gave me Battlefield Earth vibes with an epic adventure." -- Jaime Andrews, NetGalley --- "Really, really interesting book! It really made you think and kept me engrossed from beginning to end." -- Heather Bennett (Librarian) --- "All in all, this is a thoroughly gripping read that will stay with me for a long time. And if you’re looking for an adventure featuring a human colony – give this one a go. It’s worth reading." -- Sarah Higbee, reviewer --- "I'm a long time SF fan, and this book had me from the opening chapter." -- Thomas G. Anderson --- The story kept me interested and engaged. Hard to put down. ... Highly recommend." -- Marie, amazon --- "The AI were my favorites. Isn't it funny how emotions sneak in?" -- Jennifer, amazon --- "This was a really well done scifi novel, it had everything that I was looking for from what I was hoping for in the description. I enjoyed how ruthless Mother-9 was and how it worked with the other scifi elements. The rest of the characters worked in the story and I enjoyed how good everything flowed together." -- Kathryn McLeer, Net Galley --- "I really enjoyed reading this novel. The subject was something that I was super interested in and the writing was well enough done that it was easy to read and read rather fast." -- George Taylor, NetGalley --- "I absolutely adored this book. The premise, characters, and everything! It hooked me quickly, made me happy and sad, and was tough to put down." -- Kyra D., Net Galley --- "This book succeeds on many levels. It is several stories within s larger story of colonization of the stars. The world building was excellent." -- Becky Rosas, LibraryThing --- "Super-Earth Mother by Guy Immega gives birth to a complete and fascinating world - raising, educating and challenging the reader along the way. The novel is everything a new work of science fiction wants to be when it grows up: Thoughtful. I was immediately enchanted by an AI story in the first person. The reader gets a clear look at immense intelligence, still limited in its understanding of humans and our nature. The approach is enlightening and sometimes just, plain funny. AS the novel continued, what I found remarkable about Mother is the range of topics and ideas Immega musters in the course of the story. Genetics, Astro physics, linguistics, medicine, computer architecture – it sounds perhaps too much, but it isn’t. He pushes foreword on every subject he needs in order to tell a compelling story. The story is always first, there are no side-trips just to show off some shinny new concept. Nope. We get the opposite, done the hard way. When the story requires interstellar propulsion and navigation, we are treated to the tackle of those issues. When the story leads us to more internal needs, like food, water and company, we examine those issues with fresh insight. The story always leads, which when you step back and look, is kind of amazing. Immega didn’t set out to write about robots because he knew about robots. He set out to write a story set in a fully imagined future and had to learn about everything a world entails - biology, psychology, chemistry, etc. - along the way. Crazy. And correct. With the story always leading the ideas, the story stays good. This is an enticing, enveloping read, with an organic, realistic pacing and flow. I will be back for more. I hope the gestation of Immega’s next novel is not too terribly long." -- Michael Martineck --- "I’m not generally a fan of sci-fi, but Super Earth Mother is a compelling read. Weeks after finishing it, I find I can’t get the images and the atmosphere out of my head." - Pat Bridgman --- "Super-Earth Mother checked all the boxes to get me back enjoying SF. No breaking the laws of physics, no telepathy or ancient wizards, but lots of science stuff, crazy new dangers, and a good tale." - Jack Saunders --- ". The book has an enjoyable combination of sci-fi, adventure, conflict, surprising interactions with other species, and more." - Mike, amazon --- "I read the novel in one sitting. Of course, I had a deadline to meet. But more than that, I wanted to keep turning the pages. I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. ... From this reader’s point of view the novel is terrific. It engages my mind intellectually, rouses all sorts of emotions, is just plain fun to read, and best of all, stirs my sense of wonder. ... “Super-Earth Mother” is my idea of what a science fiction novel should be. A pleasure to read." - Graeme Cameron, Amazing Stories --- "I was fascinated by Mother-9’s point of view and the diverse human characters, who barely begin to understand the deeply interconnected ecosystem they disturb in their quest to survive. I enjoyed this book very much and did not want it to end." - Christine Burke, amazon --- "From high-tech installations on the moon, to a startlingly conceived interstellar transport, to low-tech settlements on a distant exoplanet, Super-Earth Mother explores one of the great cosmic truths: that the universe and everything in it is out to kill you. Humankind is reborn, midwifed by AI nursemaids into an alien ocean; a Great Mother watches from the sky. This new Eden, however, is no paradise, the motherly AI machines are not immortal, and the new breed of human is all too human, for better or worse. With rich, meticulous world-building and a seamless merger of hard and soft SF, Guy Immega creates a stage on which the new breed plays out a range of social —and antisocial— approaches to the task of survival." - Rebecca Bradley, author --- "Super-Earth Mother is an ambitious and complex novel that explores the challenges and possibilities of human colonization on an alien planet through the lens of synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. The novel's structure and multiple story arcs add layers of depth and intrigue to the narrative, making it a fascinating read for fans of hard science fiction." – Gordon Blythe --- "This is an imaginative look into the future." -- Carla Edgelow --- "I could barely put it down as I needed to know what would happen next to the inhabitants of Valencia." -- Stuart Annis --- "Super-Earth Mother is an intriguing and thought-provoking read for fans of hard science fiction." – George Potts --- "Guy Immega brings a unique blend of scientific expertise, creative writing skills, and humanitarian efforts to his work, Super-Earth Mother." – Carol Hopewell --- "The story details an entire planet with a colorful ecosystem of stunning variety.” --- “Valencia [the fictional planet in “Super-Earth Mother”] could kick Pandora’s ass [the fictional planet in James Cameron’s Avatar movie] in sixteen seconds flat.” --- "The story details an entire planet with a colorful ecosystem of stunning variety." --- “[Super-Earth Mother] explains how modifications of humans are necessary to allow survival on alien worlds.” --- "You know you’re reading a good hard sci-fi story when it has conveyed Fermi’s Paradox in two paragraphs." --- "It makes you smarter, even as it keeps you at the edge of your seat." --- "It also makes you care about a brain-damaged, almost impotent AI trapped in the orbit of a world that is slowly killing her." --- "Super-Earth Mother was a blast to read and pretty much the best story in the anthology (and it was a damn hard pick, let me tell you)." --- "I haven't had this much fun reading a hard sf story since Egan's Diaspora." --- "It's the kind of good reading where the chapters are many, concise, and often surprising. There's entertainment here, but also much to ponder." -- Amazon, Dumbell guy

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