This novel was published in August of 2022.
Book Description:
Once again, I find myself on a dying world. A world struggling to survive. A world experiencing devastation. People are suffering famine, disease, greed, hunger, and death. Alliances are formed and shattered. Kings, emperors, and warlords attempt to consolidate power to create pockets of peace, stability, and growth. It is a time of chaos. Humanity has experienced this before in its long history, but not at this magnitude. Extinction seems inevitable, and the parasites that invaded the planet are making it happen.
These are the thoughts of an experimental android from the advanced civilization of one earth of the multiverse that is lost on a fifteenth-century earth that has experienced an extraterrestrial invasion. A rescue attempt is organized but delayed due to mysterious events in space. The android can hide and simply wait until rescue arrives, or it can take action to improve its situation and become involved in the local situation on an earth experiencing upheaval. Alliances with kingdoms and warlords, and anyone that can help the android, must be made in a shifting landscape of greed and hunger. Imagination and guile will be essential.
Settings:
Various Earth worlds of the multiverse, Spain, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Italy, France, the Mediterranean Sea, a void region between galaxy clusters, a nebula, a multiverse, and a starbase.
Main Characters:
Grand Director Galileo - Augmented human mind clone in an android body.
Queen Isabella - Queen of Spain in the 15th century
Zheng He - Admiral of a Chinese Fleet in the 15th century
Cassiopeia - Artificial intelligence mind clone of a human engineer
Machiavelli - Artificial intelligence of one earth of the multiverse
Dr. Cervantes - Mind clone of a human mind lineage
Raskolnikov - A human individual living in the 15th century working for the Spanish kingdom.
Azalea 359 - Multiform Robot, Android
Emperor Mehmet the 2nd - Emperor of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century
Sepulveda - A high religious minister of an alternate earth civilization
Francisco Alvarado - The assumed name of an android lost on another planet Earth.
Topics Include:
Invasion, conquest, war, refugees, immigration, syncretism, assimilation, indigenous people, understanding of the natural world filtered through the lens of science or creation stories, international cooperation, warlords, empires, kingdoms, smugglers, collaborators, identity, art, artists, storytellers, science fiction, first contact, androids, artificial intelligence, synthetic life, immortality, transhumanism, freedom of form, 15th-century civilizations, resource exploitation, pollution, ecosystem collapse, religion, stories, alternate histories, the multiverse.
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