The One-World Computer

by Brendan L. Verville

When a supercomputer that's smarter than all of humans combined runs the world we get a world full of order and peace.

Or at least it seems that way.

What would happen if you discovered that this computer is about to place your life, your families lives and every single person on the planet at risk?

This is a challenge our hero Parish will have to face. It will be a matter of taking a risk and trying to defeat an intelligence far superior to anything you can comprehend, or dying out a sure death.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2014

About the author

In his beginnings as a writer/illustrator of comics and short stories from an early age, Brendan gathered his inspiration and passion for sharing the reality of fantasy through the literary classics. Pursuing his love of storytelling, he has long pledged to build on the greater conversations of life. He has published his short fiction and poetry on Amazon Kindle, Fiction Vortex, and From the Depths, and he received a first place award in fiction for the Writes of Spring contest. His love for Victorian/modern literature and experimental/philosophical works has prolonged his bibliomania for hoarding books that have changed his life. On his down time, outside of his role as a copy editor, Brendan also has a history of writing coverage for scripts and novels for Hollywood agencies, co-organizing film festivals, and drawing and painting pictures for his own wall.

Reviews

[Cyndi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting short story. I would have liked to see a bit more detail. It reads like an excerpt of a larger novel with a lot of the beginning, middle and end missing.