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2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Epilogue Event.
Accidentally finding himself at centre stage, an unlikely and unwilling hero Peter Finch, must, if he is to survive, awaken powers he has been trying to forget for over thirty years.
And time is not on his side.
A mysterious Artificial Intelligence, the cause of the plague, is slowly gaining control over everyone Peter loves and everything he values.
On the streets of West London, the most powerful slave of a New Order, Dr Gordon Langley, is projecting a terrifying message.
Unless Peter, aided by a band of misfits and criminals, can confront Langley, and his accomplices at a research facility near Norwich, and discover the meaning of the virus and reverse it, their world will be overcome and those permitted to survive will only endure in a new, previously unimaginable form of slavery.
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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