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Baptised and Newly Born by S G Bell Series: AI Aftermath #2
Published by: The Book Guild
Publication date: 28th March 2025
Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Pages: 368
Format: eBook, Paperback
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A decade after the Cynosure, Zoe Sinclair is still trying to ignore the end of the world.
For ten years, everything has been slowly falling apart; people continue to disappear, and no one seems to know where, until they begin to reappear as the terrifying Baptised.
Zoe needs to get away — it's something she is good at — but to outrun the tide of impending catastrophe will take every bit of her creativity, imagination, and callous disregard for those she cares about.
From Milton Keynes to the devastated city of London, Zoe runs while the creatures of the plague relentlessly pursue her. Can she uncover the secret of the Newly Born?
And what will she do when she finally has nowhere left to go?
It looks like her future may no longer be in her hands, but can the ragtag group of acquaintances she has loved and lost save her from death or a hideous transformation?
About S G Bell
S G Bell’s fiction is concerned with technology apocalypse. His interest in this subject began in 1999 when his academic research drew him to the Technocities phenomena, metropolitan utopias or infernos emerging across the world. Academic and consulting work took him to over 40 countries, where he worked on a variety of issues including: drug control on the Afghanistan/ Pakistan border, computer systems planning in Nigeria and China, the measurement of sustainability in the Mediterranean, micro-financial systems in Bangladesh, and IT satellite systems in Ethiopia. At the same time, he found that writing fiction gave him the freedom to explore complexity, dream beyond the facts, consider the aftermath of apocalypse, of technology outstripping vulnerable social development. It helped him think.
With degrees in development studies, information science and a PhD in computer systems development, his work has always involved multi-disciplinary boundary hopping. This has provided him with insights, braiding the multiple strands of activity that make up the world.
In 2010 he was researching the future of the internet and became concerned by the way groups were becoming enmeshed in technologies. Fascinated by the dynamics, as CEO of the Bayswater Institute in London, he engaged in the study of groups in the learning event: Wisdom In Groups. Professional experience confirmed the observation from 1999, that heedless technological expansion posed a threat to social cohesion.
The AI Aftermath Series is written as commercial Science Fiction, with tense, layered darkness. The stories are about an ordinary family facing terrible change. As Megan Bradbury said, the novels are ‘dramatic, detailed and romantic’ but there are sub-plots. These arise from scholarship and are portentous and deadly serious.
With more than 100 published articles and papers and several academic books. Most recently, S G Bell has written books on mindfulness and the mechanics of fear. He is Emeritus Professor in Innovation and Methodology at the Open University.
S G Bell remains deeply concerned with the sustainability of the human project, but reassured by the apparently limitless scope of human resourcefulness.
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