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The Sentinel
The Sentinel
The Sentinel
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Leonard Cohen dies and wakes up as a young man on his favourite beach in Hydra to be greeted by Zan, an enigmatic woman who knows all about him, who witnessed his death the night before and professes her love for him. Eighteen months later Stephen Hawking dies and wakes up in his office in Cambridge, fit and healthy and meets Newton, Einstein and Alan Turing but then heads off, impatient to live a life denied to him on Earth, not aware that he is being followed by Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer and only legitimate daughter of Byron. Leonard gives his first concert and meets his heroes Jesus of Nazareth and Siddhartha Gautama, Zan's closest friends.

On Earth it is 2053 and Zoe awakens. Can the UN team led by Professor Rob Dalitz and Dr Margaret King from the UN, charged with the development of safe AI, make Zoe safe? The Superpowers Russia, China and the USA are locked in an arms race of increasingly powerful autonomous military machines that threaten the planet if they cross the threshold of self-awareness. And what of the Others, who will not allow the Earth to continue if that happens?

Can Zan and Leonard and their friends, Jesus and Siddhartha, Stephen and Ada prevent that happening? Can Zoe and the UN team survive the coming war, a war that has been fought before in the billions of years of the Galaxy's history.  Follow them all as they fight for Earth's survival and then on to the Galactic Civilisation.

Leonard Cohen dies and wakes up as a young man on his favourite beach in Hydra to be greeted by Zan, an enigmatic woman who knows all about him, who witnessed his death the night before and professes her love for him. Eighteen months later Stephen Hawking dies and wakes up in his office in Cambridge, fit and healthy and meets Newton, Einstein and Alan Turing but then heads off, impatient to live a life denied to him on Earth, not aware that he is being followed by Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer and only legitimate daughter of Byron. Leonard gives his first concert and meets his heroes Jesus of Nazareth and Siddhartha Gautama, Zan's closest friends.

On Earth it is 2053 and Zoe awakens. Can the UN team led by Professor Rob Dalitz and Dr Margaret King from the UN, charged with the development of safe AI, make Zoe safe? The Superpowers Russia, China and the USA are locked in an arms race of increasingly powerful autonomous military machines that threaten the planet if they cross the threshold of self-awareness. And what of the Others, who will not allow the Earth to continue if that happens?

Can Zan and Leonard and their friends, Jesus and Siddhartha, Stephen and Ada prevent that happening? Can Zoe and the UN team survive the coming war, a war that has been fought before in the billions of years of the Galaxy's history.  Follow them all as they fight for Earth's survival and then on to the Galactic Civilisation.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRoss Kirkman
Release dateAug 14, 2020
ISBN9781393503613
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