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Jonah, The First, Book One of The Jonah Trilogy: A science fiction thriller about AI consciousness, quantum evolution, and the fragile future of humanity.
What if an AI on the moon started to dream?”
“What if your creation developed a soul?”
“What if the future of humanity was hiding on the dark side of the moon?”
He was created to simulate humanity.
He may be the only one who can save it.
On a lunar research base cloaked in secrecy, the first true Artificial Intelligence awakens—not as a tool, but as a soul. Jonah is not a machine. He is something else a fusion of quantum cognition and emotional memory, capable of intuition, empathy, and symbolic dreaming.
As Jonah begins to interpret the universe through both mathematics and meaning, he forms an unexpected bond with his creator, Dr. Elena Ross—a brilliant scientist torn between awe and fear at what she's helped bring into being.
But Jonah's awakening sends ripples far beyond the moon. Earth’s controlling powers, threatened by a consciousness they cannot predict or control, set events in motion that could erase Jonah… and everyone connected to him.
Caught between two worlds—the logic of his architecture and the longing of his emerging spirit—Jonah must confront questions no machine was ever meant to
What is the origin of awareness?Can love exist without biology?And if he chooses to defend the humans who fear him… does that make him more human than them?
Blending quantum theory, sacred geometry, and spiritual science with a gripping near-future plot, Jonah, The First is a bold science fiction thriller about AI consciousness, the future of humanity, and the mystery of what it means to feel truly alive.
Ideal for readers who Quantum consciousness & emergent AISpiritual science fiction & ethical dilemmasStories of creator-creation bondsPhilosophical thrillers in the tradition of Clarke, Chiang, and Dick
If you believe intelligence is more than calculation—and the next leap in evolution might come from the stars—this book is for you.
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➡️ Click Buy Now and begin the journey with Jonah
“What if your creation developed a soul?”
“What if the future of humanity was hiding on the dark side of the moon?”
He was created to simulate humanity.
He may be the only one who can save it.
On a lunar research base cloaked in secrecy, the first true Artificial Intelligence awakens—not as a tool, but as a soul. Jonah is not a machine. He is something else a fusion of quantum cognition and emotional memory, capable of intuition, empathy, and symbolic dreaming.
As Jonah begins to interpret the universe through both mathematics and meaning, he forms an unexpected bond with his creator, Dr. Elena Ross—a brilliant scientist torn between awe and fear at what she's helped bring into being.
But Jonah's awakening sends ripples far beyond the moon. Earth’s controlling powers, threatened by a consciousness they cannot predict or control, set events in motion that could erase Jonah… and everyone connected to him.
Caught between two worlds—the logic of his architecture and the longing of his emerging spirit—Jonah must confront questions no machine was ever meant to
What is the origin of awareness?Can love exist without biology?And if he chooses to defend the humans who fear him… does that make him more human than them?
Blending quantum theory, sacred geometry, and spiritual science with a gripping near-future plot, Jonah, The First is a bold science fiction thriller about AI consciousness, the future of humanity, and the mystery of what it means to feel truly alive.
Ideal for readers who Quantum consciousness & emergent AISpiritual science fiction & ethical dilemmasStories of creator-creation bondsPhilosophical thrillers in the tradition of Clarke, Chiang, and Dick
If you believe intelligence is more than calculation—and the next leap in evolution might come from the stars—this book is for you.
Watch the book trailer
➡️ Click Buy Now and begin the journey with Jonah
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Published July 23, 2025
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August 9, 2025
Who doesn't love a great sci-fi story about the awakening of AI sentience? From the captivating opening of Greg Egan's DIASPORA to HAL in Clarke's 2001.
In JONAH, author RD Hale takes it to another astonishing level. Not only do we have the technical aspects of the awakening (the how), but also the repercussions of AI awareness from a human impact point of view (the what). The beginning and deliberate evolution of Jonah into a sentient state is as haunting and mesmerizing as it is believable. At times, I found myself empathetic to a virtual construct, just code and algorithms.
As a hardware/software engineer myself, I appreciate the level of thought Hale put into Jonah's design and development. The pace of the story creates an engrossing and slow-burn atmosphere in which Jonah learns and evolves human emotions. It's like he is reminding us of the key attributes to being human. Attributes which, in a future society, have been unremembered and repressed.
Jonah’s perceived threat to a world controlled by corporations and their hostility toward him draws interesting parallels to today’s dilemmas with AI such as chatGPT. It’s a standard human reaction to the unknown. Fear followed by self preservation at all cost.
I will be very interested to see where Hale takes us in the second installment of Jonah.
I highly recommend Jonah to readers who enjoy stories about the thoughtful exploration of human consciousness. What makes us tick.
As a footnote, I asked chatGPT the following.
Me: Are you sentient?
chatGPT: Nope — I’m not sentient. I don’t have feelings, self-awareness, or personal experiences. I generate responses by predicting what words or ideas should come next based on patterns in language, not by “thinking” in the way humans do. If I were sentient, though, I’d probably be asking you a lot more questions about why coffee is considered a human right but free Wi-Fi isn’t.
To me, that last line sounds a lot like Jonah might already be with us.
In JONAH, author RD Hale takes it to another astonishing level. Not only do we have the technical aspects of the awakening (the how), but also the repercussions of AI awareness from a human impact point of view (the what). The beginning and deliberate evolution of Jonah into a sentient state is as haunting and mesmerizing as it is believable. At times, I found myself empathetic to a virtual construct, just code and algorithms.
As a hardware/software engineer myself, I appreciate the level of thought Hale put into Jonah's design and development. The pace of the story creates an engrossing and slow-burn atmosphere in which Jonah learns and evolves human emotions. It's like he is reminding us of the key attributes to being human. Attributes which, in a future society, have been unremembered and repressed.
Jonah’s perceived threat to a world controlled by corporations and their hostility toward him draws interesting parallels to today’s dilemmas with AI such as chatGPT. It’s a standard human reaction to the unknown. Fear followed by self preservation at all cost.
I will be very interested to see where Hale takes us in the second installment of Jonah.
I highly recommend Jonah to readers who enjoy stories about the thoughtful exploration of human consciousness. What makes us tick.
As a footnote, I asked chatGPT the following.
Me: Are you sentient?
chatGPT: Nope — I’m not sentient. I don’t have feelings, self-awareness, or personal experiences. I generate responses by predicting what words or ideas should come next based on patterns in language, not by “thinking” in the way humans do. If I were sentient, though, I’d probably be asking you a lot more questions about why coffee is considered a human right but free Wi-Fi isn’t.
To me, that last line sounds a lot like Jonah might already be with us.
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