Uncanny Valley

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Uncanny Valley

**Dystopian coming-of-age with superintelligent A.I.**

Rebecca Cordeaux knows exactly what her future will hold: she will marry Andy, her crush of the last five years. Once Andy is ready to settle down, sheâ€™s sure he will discover that she is his soulmate. After several small parts on stage, Rebecca knows she can become a renowned actress. Her writing also shows promise as a future author. Robots perform most human jobs that can be automated, leaving many free to pursue their personal creative interests.

But Rebecca's mother Karen fears the new world of robots, and insists her brilliant daughter join a university research team, studying the hazards of a complete robotic economy. Rebecca's father Quentin was obsessed with the subject to a degree that even her mother considered absurd, prior to his untimely death. So long as she can reserve enough of her time to pursue her true passions on the side, Rebecca half-heartedly agrees to join the research team, if only to please her widowed mother. There she joins a post-doc named Liam, whose conspiracy theories rival even those of her late father. Liam is convinced that world Republic leader William Halpertâ€™s worldwide challenge for researchers to develop synthetic creativity will lead not to the promised utopia, in which every kind of human suffering has been eradicated, but rather to an apocalypse. Rebecca, whose best friend is her own companion bot Madeline, writes Liam off as a bot-hating conspiracy theorist, just like her father wasâ€¦ until she learns that her fatherâ€™s death might not have been due to mere happenstance.

With Liamâ€™s help, Rebecca learns of an underground organization known as The Renegades, where Quentin Cordeaux was considered a legend. While Liam attempts to stop Halpertâ€™s challenge if he can, Rebecca tries to unravel the mystery of what happened to her father. Did he and many of his contemporaries die for something they knew? Who is the mysterious informant who calls himself John Doe, and only seems to want to drive her out of harmâ€™s way? And if Halpertâ€™s challenge is answered, will it usher in a brave new chapter in humanityâ€™s historyâ€¦ or were Quentin Cordeauxâ€™s dire predictions right all along?

Country	USA
Author	C.A. Gray
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Wanderlust Publishing
Manufacturer	Wanderlust Publishing
NumberOfPages	385
PublicationDate	2017-12-11
Publisher	Wanderlust Publishing
ReleaseDate	2017-12-11
Studio	Wanderlust Publishing

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