Sidney is still shaken by his encounter with the ruthlessly plotting Eric. Brian is planning to exploit what he has learned about Gammons from Sidney. Eric's ambition grows, even as he deals with a blackmailer. Anita is trying to remain steady in the whirlwind threatening to sweep her away.
And at the center of the whirlwind is Eric's assistant Gammons, a robot who appears to be falling in love.
This is part two of the serial novel "How It Ends", the story of Anita, a young graduate student; Brian, the smarmy college professor whom Anita is dating; Sidney, a professorial colleague of Brian’s who reluctantly takes Anita on as a research assistant; Kilgore, a robotic doctor who provides the human characters fascinating insights as to how the “mind” of a robot really works; Eric, a cut-throat executive in the nation’s largest robotics firm who is not above getting his hands dirty to get what he wants; and Gammons, Eric's robot assistant who has a special circuit for feeling emotion like a human.
To immerse yourself in the lives of these characters is to be swept into the increasing speed of the story until, at last, their lives collide in a global apocalypse and you find out “How It Ends”.
NOTE: This is part two of a four-part serial novel.
An interesting sci-fi book by an indie author. Any sci-fi book which has a character reference Beowulf gets points from me! An intriguing meditation on what makes us human.