Minds of Sand and Light: Book 1 of the Council of AIs
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MIP: Android? Android. Interesting. I don’t know if I’m organic imitating enough to fit that definition. If you cut me, I do not bleed.
Botswana: Your coolant is red, so yes you do.
Journalist and hacker Ruth Sharpe and her business partner Cassie Bailey investigate the Party, the sinister regime running the nation of the Greater Far East.
They expose one of the Party’s massacres and discover that the Party is really an artificial intelligence, ruthlessly using social engineering to control its population. The Party in in conflict with the Council of AIs, a world-wide group of supercomputers who have gained sentience.
At the same time, the Council’s android Mobile Infiltration Platform begins to respect and admire Ruth's intelligence and tenacity and decides it doesn’t want to see her dead.
The AIs will do anything to keep their existence a secret, drawing Ruth and Cassie into a dangerous hidden conflict that could lead to the oppression – or destruction – of all humanity.
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About the author
Kylie Chan has a BBus in information technology, an MBA in IT, and an MPhil in Creative Writing. She started out as an IT consultant and trainer specialising in business intelligence systems in Australia, and then had her own consulting business for ten years in Hong Kong. When she returned to Australia, Kylie wrote the bestselling nine-book Dark Heavens fantasy series, followed by the Dragon Empire science fiction series. Her 2023 speculative novel, ‘Minds of Sand and Light’, explores the theme of artificial intelligence and its possible impact on society. She is a full-time writer based on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
