Fundraiser for new book launched on Kickstarter this week to help promote and polish this new Science Fiction work about nanite technology. The purpose of the project is to raise funds for editing and discover interest in this project and possible sequels.
The Story: Cybernetic nanite technology from an ancient sword has infected him. Now this young man, Dalt, hears and sees the images of people from an earlier time. These are not mere recordings of the founders of his world but virtual humans stored in a nanite matrix now interfaced to his brain. These founders tell him the truth of his world, an uncomfortable truth. From the viewpoint of those founders, his world is a backwards place. It’s a place where using unapproved technology means punishment by the Luddite Purist who run his world. Can technology help his people have a better life and really improve his world, or will its storehouse of information corrupt and pollute it? The inner dialog of this young man with the very ones who changed the world provides him answers for his future, but at the same time, he discovers disturbing questions about the past.
He realizes he must search for the wisdom he needs to find the answers. Then he meets someone who has beauty, power and privilege, yet secrets of her own. What will he do when she discovers his secret?
This book explores the question… What it would like to be able to talk to people from history and ask their advice and benefit from their life experience? The setting is a planetary colony in earth’s future where this technology was supposed to be a panacea, preventing humans from ruining another planet. But things go wrong and the planets development stagnates when anti-technology Luddites with an almost religious zeal seize control of the planet. Centuries have past and a young man finds a relic of that technology. The knowledge that it gives him puts him at odds with this now church-like power structure. Only the bloody civil war that is raging gives him hope that he might be able to use this ‘Founder’s Gift’ to bring about positive change for his world.
If this seems like a book you would enjoy reading please see my Kickstarter page.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anklesneeze/the-founders-gifts
Cybernetic Nanite Technology – When I wrote this book I also began to think about what kind of technology, real or imagined, would be able to accomplish this connection with past people. Since these personalities would have to be internal and this is science fiction, I had to invent what I have termed cybernetic nanite technology. I have developed a framework of this technology that I explain in the book’s appendix. Basically this is the manipulation and enhancement of the body’s normal cells by nanite scale constructs. It allows for the vast data storage and physical manipulation on a sub cellular level required to make this type human intellect downloading plausible. Instead of cybernetic devices built on to a person’s torso or limbs why not enhance individual cells of the body? These symbiotic intelligence’s exist inside Dalt the main character.
I theorized that if a technology like cyber-nano-prosthesis was developed, it might well hold the equivalent memory of an entire person or even a number of people in the physical space requirements of a person’s head and still not interfere with the stuff that’s there. What if we had these nano-machines inside us? Would they be able to help us in ways we couldn’t dream? How would cybernetically enhanced cells effect the human body? Would they give us some special abilities, or even super powers? What would the impact on society be, who would benefit, and who would be harmed?
What effect would the discovery of such nano technology have on the human race and its ability to survive as a whole? What type of political movements would result? Would people even listen to the advice of previous generations to avoid repeating the same mistakes? Or would we make new mistakes so far from the originals that the former knowledge and experience would do little to help?
I try to imagine a world faced with the consequences of choices made about how these CyberNanites might be used. The result is the book “The Founders Gifts: The Symbiotic Sword”.
The Founders Gifts
