What inspired Sha Li to write a science fiction illustrated novel?

She finished the third book of the American in Beijing series when she was in Beijing in October 2015 and was outlining the next days and months of the same characters.  The story kept spooling. 

Crisscrossing the ancient city, she thought about the ultimate showdown between humans and robots, the stimulating research trending toward artificial intelligence and the futuristic applications of technology, leaping from the creation of artificial blood to the first world Nano-technology conference. 

The question is how we will get from here and now, where humans rule all, to the future, when augmented humans struggle to compete with the eternal bots.

The complicated and secret lineage of the main character’s twins, one with a Chinese father and the other an American, sets up unprecedented, international patent and custody claims and cross-claims to develop the nascent technology accidently combined in the Subject’s fetuses.

Is android superiority over humans inevitable? Human Hybrids: ORIGIN (Illustrated Novel)A New Cyberpunk illustrated Sci-Fi novel imagines the first augmented human

287pp 50 illustrations

Dunsmuir, California— The test Subject struggles to control her body and its developments, a metaphor of humanity’s struggle to exert primacy over the creeping development of androids. Amplification or augmentation of the human is one way to gain competitive edge over the bots.

“The dystopian future for humanity is probable without champions who will wage the war for humans now.  This story is what that could look like,” says Sha Li.

Author Bio

Sha Li, artist and writer, mastered story telling with plein air depictions of rural town life before gaining recognition as a journalist and user experience expert.  She says, “If you can imagine it, they’re already doing it,” meaning transhumanism and global dominance is the goal of Artificial Intelligence through breakthrough discoveries like artificial blood, CRISPER editing, and space travel.

Prior to writing in cyberpunk genre, she created an espionage series An American in Beijing with three thriller novels set in modern China. Not an easy read, numerous Chinese and American characters in rich settings demand surrender to a fictional reality.

What’s it about?

In Human Hybrids: ORIGIN (Illustrated Novel), everyone wants a piece of her action, the babies, and the research potential.  They pursue her aggressively, inserting invasive research protocols and bots with military applications.  The first test subject died. 

The Subject turns tables on the researchers and their computers, infects them with her ideas and designs. But can she control the outcome?

More information at Human Hybrids: ORIGIN.  ShaLiauthor@gmail.com.Available now at Amazon.com

Finished with his business, curiosity seizes his imagination. Her spots, the ones he can see on her arms and neck, have mutated. Their tessellated edges have knit together into a complex crystalline design, tiny dots side by side in coherent groupings in the cells of her skin.

The equipment attracting the most attention is the space capsule, sitting on a stainless-steel rack balancing its open door.