EHuman Dawn

by Nicole Sallak Anderson

The Great Shift is coming.... are you ready to jump?

Fast forward to the year 2242--a world in which death, disease, war and famine have been conquered, and where everything, including humans, are devices on Neuro, a complex network operating system that is controlled via human thought. Adam Winter has lived for nearly two hundred years in an eHuman body--a man of metal, fiber optics and plastic, on a world where no one dies and no one is born. Paradise on earth--until Adam discovers that the World Government is cutting power to entire cities, and his own city is on the list!

Trapped in a body that must recharge on the network, Adam is swept up into the underworld of an eHuman anti World Government resistance, led by Dawn, the very first eHuman created. While the Resistance wages war against those in power, Dawn reveals to Adam a shocking secret about their past that not only bonds them together, but is also the Resistance’s ticket to gaining control over Neuro and taking down the World Government once and for all. Caught between the past and the future, Adam must rise up, claim his inheritance, and face his destiny-- before eHumanity is powered down, forever.


Nicole Sallak Anderson is a Computer Science graduate from Purdue University. She developed encryption and network security software for years, which inspired both the storyline and the science behind eHuman Dawning. She currently lives with her husband and two teenaged sons on two acres in the Santa Cruz mountains of Northern California, where she indulges in a variety of homesteading hobbies, from beekeeping and raising chickens and goats, to gardening, canning, spinning, and knitting.

Genres: Science Fiction

262 pages, ebook

First published November 26, 2013

About the author

Nicole Sallak Anderson is Computer Science graduate from Purdue University, and former CTO for a small Silicon Valley startup, turned novelist, speaker, and blogger, focusing on the intersection of technology and consciousness. Her essays range from AI and Zen to direct democracy to the loneliness of modern parenting— featured as a top twenty story on Medium. In addition, her work on Universal Basic Income has been included on 2020 presidential candidate, Andrew Yang’s, website.

She is the author of Origins, Blood and Chaos, and Civilization's End--a trilogy about Egypt's last native pharaoh and his quest to take back his empire from the Ptolemys, and most recently, It Takes Two, a contemporary romance with a reincarnation twist.

You can keep up with all her latest writing on her website www.nicolesallakanderson.com or by following @NSallakAnderson on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Medium. Feel free to contact her, she almost always answers to any query or comment!

Reviews

[Dianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cue the music, “In the Year 2525…” and strap in for a trip to future Earth, the year, 2242 where mankind has conquered the ills and frailty of humanity by virtually wiping out what makes us human. The World Government has created a way to take the essense of the human mind and implant it into a virtually indestructible android body. Get tired of that one? Get a new body, the catch? All memories of your existence, all of your personal memories are erased and poof, you are another eHuman. But is this true freedom of choice? Is there more to the government’s involvement than meets the eye? Is there any true privacy?

Adam Winter, an investigative reporter, has never changed his body in over 200 years, and he questions the truths the people are told. Is it possible that the rumors of a resistance living outside the “safety” of the cities actually exist? Is it true the government plans to cut off the power of the life-sustaining Neuro system the population relies on daily? Have big business and big government gone in league with each other to betray ehumanity? Will the eHuman, Dawn show Adam the path to the truth? Was it fate or Destiny that will bring these two together in such dire times?

EHuman Dawn by Nicole Sallak Anderson is a startling look at a future that is as bleak as any time known to mankind. As she builds her dystopian world, the façade of peace and prosperity hide the ugly underbelly of a government gone wrong. Her world is painted with bold words, brilliant imagination and creates a thought-proving look at a “what if” future. Her characters come to life with their thoughts, their questions, their agendas and that never-ending fight of good vs evil as she allows her story to unfold at a steady pace. I was fascinated by the plot, the concept and the characters, not to mention the action that ramped up the pace to warp speed.

Are you a Sci-fi lover? Do you like intrigue or mystery or even the thought of the strength of a few who want to better things for the masses? There is a lot to think about in EHuman Dawn PLUS great reading!

I received this copy from The Story Merchant in exchange for my honest review.

Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Publisher: Story Merchant Books
ISBN-10: 0989715485
ISBN-13: 978-0989715485
Genre: Sci-Fi, adults
Print Length: 262 pages
Available from: Amazon

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this on a whim - I think it was self-published it when I purchased it, but may have found a publisher since then. I am aware that there is a sequel or two available. This book clearly had some very good qualities. Anderson does some fine world building, which is backed up by interesting concepts. It is set in a future world in which most of humanity has made "the Jump" from being flesh and blood mortals to a deathless cyborg state, in which the characters live on a network of computers and electrical power. It is a merging of humanity with the internet of things, with a WG (World Government) and their "Guardians" running everything. But naturally, there is a resistance movement to all this, and our main character, following a strong attraction to a woman, stumbles into it, and becomes their savior (or something like that - I only got 1/3 of the way into it).

So far so good, but the writing is packed with cliches. I won't bother listing any examples, but they pop up with great frequency. The characters are one-dimensional, and it very quickly gets into space opera territory (althou it all takes place on Earth a couple of centuries in the future). This is a shame, because there are some very interesting ideas and descriptions of a potential future presented here. Maybe Anderson should find a writing partner?

[Ami · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started good, but got rather slow. I finished two other books while slumping through this one. Adam, with his obvious name was bland and not bright much of the time. But the concept, namely trans-humanism, was quite interesting.

[N.K. Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fascinating read set in future Earth, with contemporary overtones, eHuman Dawn kept me turning pages. Opening scenes reminded me a lot of The Matrix, but Anderson ably moved beyond that to explore her own world of electronic humans living in peace and prosperity throughout the world, but totally dependent on the system. Each eHuman still possesses a mind and spirit and can change--jump--to new bodies. The characters are strong, and elicit plenty of care and/or revulsion.

I could have done without the 21st century R-rated language, and there was an occasional typo and a few odd perspective changes, but Andersen is be commended for the concept and solid efforts of eHuman Dawn.

[Maria Rios · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have always wondered what a world would be like where a person wouldn't die, free of illness and other problems and this book gave a good idea of what that would look like. I really enjoyed the book, and it had me turning page after page. The plot and characters where really good. I would definitely recommend this book to all those science fiction lovers.
*I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.

[Pat Schiffman deppe · Rating 4 out of 5]

book read well, the ending seamed a little hurried in content, it also left room for the next book in the sequence. Not a read for young teens, has electronic sex,

[Tomislav Kosanović · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF. Didn't like where the plot was heading.

Cute idea, though.