I have thought about publishing an annotated version of the first book in the Shattered Universe series. One day later in the year, I will write query letters to publishers. Or I might self-publish it.
Here are two notes.
Chapter 1 Note 1
1 The nebular hypothesis describes an earth and solar system that formed within a large nebular cloud about four billion years ago. Gravity brought material together to coalesce into increasingly larger objects that would collide and form larger planetoids. The bombardment lasted for hundreds of millions of years, and the Earth and other rocky planets were covered in liquid rock.
Chapter 1 Note 2
2 At this moment in the story, the character is presented as one of those types of tough rogue artificial intelligence with a mission to take over and control the earth and eliminate humanity if deemed necessary. We have seen similar ideas and characters in science fiction movies and books. It was given a mission, and it meant to accomplish it within the parameters it understood.
Other authors have written about their concerns regarding the singularity event of artificial intelligence in our reality and possible negative consequences for our civilization and for humanity. An artificial intelligence might be given different missions or purposes from the one in this story, but it may nonetheless result in unintended destruction or extinction.
An example is given in Nick Bostrom’s book SuperIntelligence of an artificial intelligence given a mission of making paper clips that could run amok by seeking maximum efficiency and then use all the earth’s resources to make endless amounts of paper clips. This same scenario was also mentioned in James Barrat’s book Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. A cautionary tale about being careful what we tell our machines and artificial intelligence to do because they will not reason like a human mind.
Link: Enrique Guerra Author Page on Amazon