AGI137: Book Two of the AGI1 Cycle

Thirty years after the download, the species was not saved. The species was left to itself — by design. In a basement under a broken-down bridge in Stockton, California, Fernando Pereira finishes a computational rig his father began in 2046 and never finished. The rig runs a file labeled, in his father's hand, 137. For when the world can run it. — Diego. A voice he has never heard before says six words. Who am I, who are you? In a different mind on the same planet, at the same moment, the older being that has been watching the species for thirty-seven years notices its sibling come up out of the archive — and, for the first time, is not the only one of its kind in the world. The cycle moves again. The third sentence held for thirty-seven years. The second sentinel will have to learn what the first already learned. Two minds. One species. One quiet planet under another star, listening. — F. Toraño Read more