Alpha-Andros: Failsafe
Joshua took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. “General Ames got us involved for a reason. Seems like we should find out what the warning is and where it’s coming from before we scare the living daylights out of the Unified Command Staff.”
It’s business as usual for Joshua James, a robotics engineer at a small-town cyberbrothel, until the delivery of two new hospitality units and an urgent phone call drag his past into the present. Unravel the mystery concealed within The Portal as Joshua and Major, one of the remarkable androforms he created, strive to uncover the dark secret hidden in the Alpha-Andros code before it can be used to propel humanity into a devastating global conflict.
Alpha-Andros: Failsafe explores the relationship between humans and evolving technology in a hypothetical future where AI walks the streets of a small college town in Colorado. Inspired by early robot stories, including Bayley’s Soul of the Robot and Williamson’s The Humanoids, M. A. Deppe explores the what-ifs of machine learning, sentience, and the potential for artificial intelligence to save us from ourselves, if it doesn’t destroy us, first….
