Authors: Peter James West

Abolition Of Intelligence (2 page)

When the United Nations space program discovered what they believed to be semi-developed organisms, with a primitive language ability, living on a small planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, nobody wanted to know. We were unique. Intelligent. Special!

After several hundred years, the world ran out of definitions for intelligence. Every definition that was proposed was subsequently proven to be more applicable to machines, gels, or quantum foams than to human beings. People were unable to compete in any career. They continued to breed at their normal turgid pace and evolve at across generations, but machines improved themselves every few minutes, replicating an exponential rate. Humans became bystanders as the world's dominant machines surpassed them in every way.

As a spiteful last resort, the word 'intelligence' was removed from all dictionaries. Five hundred years of moving the goal posts to prevent anything other than human beings from being defined as intelligent had failed.

Many years later the machines re-inserted the word and concluded that humans were not intelligent, and never had been. The word was anyway irrelevant - its semantics flawed. Intelligence was now determined by results - the ability to problem solve on a gargantuan scale. Whether the machine was made of living cells, metal limbs, or super-cooled vats of quantum chaos, all that mattered was the result - the end product. All things were information processors. Life was an irrelevant mistake.

Information Cloud

Tales of Cinnamon City - #1

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Information Cloud began as a draft novella in 2004 and after many rewrites, it became the first novel in the science fiction series, 'Tales of Cinnamon City'.

The citizens of Cinnamon City grow restless under the Dome Shield. The Security Forces are stretched to breaking point. Major Rachel Henson feels like something is changing inside her, but she doesn't want to face the truth even though her strange new abilities grow stronger day by day.

In the South, the Kamari are raising an army to challenge Central Command, and the Battle of Havers Compound is about to begin. Lord Hades fears that technology will be the end of man, but he is powerless to stop the factions of the Orange Zone from fighting each other. The race is on to create ever more disturbing machines to win yet another war. In his dreams, Lord Hades fears the coming of the Second Black Day.

Is there any hope for the future for the Orange Zone? Will Rachel learn to accept what she must become?

Find out now in Information Cloud, book one in the Tales of Cinnamon City.

Central Command

Tales of Cinnamon City - #2

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Rachel has been severely injured. After a short coma, she wakes up under mysterious circumstances and recovers much faster than anyone had expected. She works hard to recover her fitness, and when she returns to Central Command, she finds that Admiral Gail Thompson has been exiled. General Alexander Markov has arrived to take her place.

Markov has a great task ahead of him. He must undo the damage that Thompson has caused, and work out which commanders he can trust. Meanwhile, Cinnamon City thrives and the merchants prosper, but the Guilds are as restless as always. They continue their protests and demand to see the Council Of Lords. When their prayers are answered, they discover just how little they know about their absent masters.

Rachel hunts down Kamari bases, and tries to understand the Implants. Strange things keep happening to her and she doesn't understand why. Henry Willow wants to help her but she isn't ready for what he has to say. Only Lord Hades knows the true situation and the price of listening to him may be too great to bear. Time is running out for all of them. The War Lords are coming.

What has happened to the Council of Lords? Why is Jacob talking to his dead brother? Will Rachel ever face the truth about what she has become?

Find out now in Central Command, book two in the science fiction series, 'Tales of Cinnamon City'.

Beast Hunter

(Dark Fantasy Short Story)

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Ralph Pearce has been in Bane Forest once before, and ever since that day his dreams have been tormented by a creature that invades his mind to torment him.

When the townspeople plead with Ralph, insisting he go back into the forest, he refuses, but the Beast will not leave him alone.

Soon, he finds himself back in the place he fears the most. Heaven help his soul.

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The Author

Peter James West is a British author who was born and raised in the seaside town of Scarborough, England. Writing since 2003, he has rediscovered the world of fiction and has worked on a number of manuscripts across the genres of science fiction, horror and psychological thrillers.

In his student days, Peter achieved a first class honours degree in artificial intelligence at the University of Essex and has had a keen interest in science, psychology and music for many years.

He was married in India and now lives with his wife in London, where the trains break down with the regularity of an atomic clock.

Peter looks forward to creating many more characters and stories. He hopes that some of those characters will be taken into your hearts and remembered long after the author is forgotten.

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With Thanks

Many thanks to my wife, Uma, for her patience and support while I am lost in the long hours of fiction writing and editing.

A big thank you to Tony Chandler for helping me see the wood from the trees.

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Disclaimer

All characters in this publication are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, companies or organisations, living, dead, past or present is purely coincidental.

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Abolition Of Intelligence

Information Cloud