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Artificial Wisdom

By: Thomas R. Weaver
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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Publisher's summary

Salvation Has a Price.

An enthralling murder mystery with a vividly realised future world, forcing listeners to grapple hard hitting questions about the climate crisis, our relationship with Artificial Intelligence and the price we would be willing to pay, as a species, to be saved. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Neal Stephenson, Philip K Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson and RR Haywood, or those that loved Steven Pacey's narration of Joe Abercrombie's First Law series.

It's 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed 400 million across the Persian Gulf, including journalist Marcus Tully's wife. Now he must uncover the truth: Was the disaster natural? Or is the weather now a weapon of genocide?

A whistleblower pulls Tully into a murder investigation at the centre of an election battle for a global dictator, with a mandate to prevent a climate apocalypse. A former US President campaigns against the first AI politician of the position, but someone is trying to sway the outcome.

Tully must convince the world to face the truth and make hard choices about the future of the species. But will humanity ultimately choose salvation over freedom, whatever the cost?

©2023 Thomas R. Weaver (P)2023 Thomas R. Weaver

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AMAZING

Top 5 audio books. I LOVED this book. Sci-fi meets mystery and political story love it all. Not spooky. More a political narrative of the world in 2050. Great reading and page on audible.

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Still Processing

What a fantastic debut! This sci-fi/mystery with dystopian vibes will have you questioning what is real and what is fake right up until the end!

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Intriguing techno-thriller that explores how AI might help save humanity from an impending climate crisis… for good and for ill

Great concept for a book: humanity in 2050 is struggling with the true ramifications of the climate crisis, with climate events causing deaths in the millions, and so turns to technology for help. The world’s governments propose a temporary dictator who can unite the world in tackling the climate crisis. During the election process, a powerful AI is submitted as one of the candidates for dictator. Obviously this is concerning, but it also is somewhat understandable. So far humanity has done a pretty poor job with this issue.

Throughout the story, there is a lot of political intrigue, journalistic sleuthing, dark secrets uncovered, and some interesting twists along the way. The characters were sympathetic, the stakes were high, and this book kept me guessing the entire time. And the audiobook narrator does an incredible job bringing the story to life.

If you are a fan of Michael Crichton or Blake Crouch, I highly recommend giving this a try!

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Excellent narration!!

A roller coaster of speculative fiction wrapped in a murder mystery set in the near future. OMG this was a lot to take in! Who am I supposed to trust now?

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The story just kept me hooked!!

This book is a page turner. I’m newer to sci-fi but this book had a little bit of everything. Very well done!

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Unique twisty sci Fi murder mystery plus

What an incredibly complex intelligent read. Stratified characters involved in a crazy layered mystery/murder plot. The future is bleak and it's not that far away from our current reality. Can artificial intelligence get us out of our own way and clean up our deadly mess of a planet we have created? Politics, murder, end of days, environment and the giant gap of the have and have nots. Then of course is AI trustworthy? You will deep dive into your own opinions about all of it and then just sit and have to simmer in it all at the end, asking so what is TRUTH? This was soo much but, not too much for anyone to enjoy this page turner...

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Book that feels like it is telling you your future

Finished this audio book in two days. Could not stop listening. Story was very well laid out with twist and turns that are believable. Hoping for a sequel to this story one day.

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Incredible and thought provoking techno mystery

Incredible!! Thoroughly enjoyed it and the narrator had a masterclass performance as always. Highly recommend

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Great engaging story!

Great narration on an outstanding book! This plot definitely seems like it could become reality in the near future

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Incredible & thought provoking

The story was instantly engaging and kept my attention until the very last minute! I will not stop recommending it.

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