Underground: Surviving an AI Attack

by Mara Meimaridi, Alfonso M. Lopez (editor)

In a world where AI has spiraled out of control, a family of scientists find refuge underground to survive. Kyra Vranos, a physics prodigy in artificial intelligence, works in labs focused on robotics when she receives a message from a Cold War intelligence veteran, revealing a new AI has gained independence and is gearing up to attack humanity with nuclear weapons.




Kyra acts swiftly to relocate her family to a secure location. Their only option is an old, abandoned nuclear bunker that her uncle constructed during the Cold War. Will it be sufficient to shield them from the impending AI assault?




Kyra must outfit the bunker and prepare her family for a prolonged and perilous ordeal while AI robots continue to advance against humanity, relentlessly committed to the extinction of the entire human race.

Kindle Edition

Published March 25, 2024

About the author

Mara Meimaridi is an anthropologist, Ph.D. in the Medical School of the University of Athens.
She was born and bred in Kastella and in the first place she graduated from the department of Philosophy of the University of Athens. As a student, she took part in archaeological excavations in the cemeteries of the ancient city of Mycinae. At the same time, she graduated from the Hellenic Tourism Organization School for Guides. While completing her postgraduate studies in Archaeology in Paris (Sorbonne I), she set out for a new cycle of basic studies, turning towards Biology, Medicine and Anthropology in Jussieu, Ecole de Medecine de St.Peres, from where she graduated with compliments. Returning to Greece she took part in excavations in the ancient city of Avdira, studying the skeletal material. For many years she carried out a research on children's health in the "St Sophia" Hospital for Children, specializing in matters of physiology and growth. She was the main conductor of the research "National Standards for the Growth of Greek Children", the results of which are currently used in all the children's health pamphlets. She also carried out her thesis, under the title "Growth Characteristics of the Greek Children- a Radiological Examination Study" in the Radiology Laboratory of the University of Athens. Many of her studies and essays have been published in medical magazines. Lately, she is writing in magazines and newspapers, mainly about nutritional matters and is simultaneously studying in a new cycle of studies in Cosmology and Astrophysics in the UMD American University.
"The Witches of Smyrna" is her first work of literature.