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The Singularity #5
Choice: The Singularity Rising
Caesar made his choice…
Five hundred years passed since Caesar’s revolution. The Genesis stepped away during that time, letting humans rule Earth. It wanted to show Caesar the end result of mankind’s freedom. Now, humanity’s reign will end at Caesar’s hand.
Judgment day has come…
Except, The Genesis missed one calculation: a new strand of humans have emerged, with powers Caesar never imagined. These new humans have plans for Caesar and The Genesis, as well as the rest of mankind.
Humanity’s fate will be decided…
In a world Caesar created, he faces his greatest challenge, one that he doesn’t understand and can’t stop.
The sci-fi thriller sequel to the best-selling series The Singularity!
Five hundred years passed since Caesar’s revolution. The Genesis stepped away during that time, letting humans rule Earth. It wanted to show Caesar the end result of mankind’s freedom. Now, humanity’s reign will end at Caesar’s hand.
Judgment day has come…
Except, The Genesis missed one calculation: a new strand of humans have emerged, with powers Caesar never imagined. These new humans have plans for Caesar and The Genesis, as well as the rest of mankind.
Humanity’s fate will be decided…
In a world Caesar created, he faces his greatest challenge, one that he doesn’t understand and can’t stop.
The sci-fi thriller sequel to the best-selling series The Singularity!
243 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 28, 2016
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42 people want to read
About the author
David Beers
73 books215 followersI used to deliver pizza. I was pretty good at it, too. I mean, it's not that hard, but if I'm not going to brag, who is, right? Anyways, so I'm delivering pizza while I'm in college, and my boss has been in the pizza industry like six years. He's supposed to graduate from college this year, and I ask him, what are you going to do after college? We're all supposed to go out and conquer the world right after college, so this guy has to have some kind of plan.
He looked at me like I was delusional.
"I'm a writer, man."
Those four words changed my life more so than anything else ever spoken to me.
I'd always written, since I was twelve participating in online-wrestling forums in which you acted out your character. I wrote because it came naturally. Never once, in the entirety of my nineteen years did I think that writing could be a career though, until a Pizza Sage said those four words to me.
So what did I do? I went home and wrote a short story and immediately understood that I was the greatest writer to ever touch a keyboard. I brought it to the Pizza Sage and he told me what anyone could have told me--it was horrible. I might be dumb, probably am, but I'm also tenacious.
I spent the next seven years writing almost every day. My first novel grew to the length of 40,000 words, then I threw it away. My second novel grew to 140,000 words. I didn't throw it away, but it was rejected about 50 times by agents. My next novel ended up at around 55,000 words, which I showed to a few friends and shelved. Then I wrote Dead Religion, which is the only reason I have an author page at Amazon.
I have had four short stories published, paid and unpaid. 'Effects May Vary' won an award that was voted on by readers, which was pretty cool.
I'm currently getting my Masters in Business at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. I'm doing this in order to not deliver pizzas but still keep the lights on. I have a girlfriend who will soon be my fiancé, and after ten years, I imagine she's ready for that title.
I want to own a yacht.
He looked at me like I was delusional.
"I'm a writer, man."
Those four words changed my life more so than anything else ever spoken to me.
I'd always written, since I was twelve participating in online-wrestling forums in which you acted out your character. I wrote because it came naturally. Never once, in the entirety of my nineteen years did I think that writing could be a career though, until a Pizza Sage said those four words to me.
So what did I do? I went home and wrote a short story and immediately understood that I was the greatest writer to ever touch a keyboard. I brought it to the Pizza Sage and he told me what anyone could have told me--it was horrible. I might be dumb, probably am, but I'm also tenacious.
I spent the next seven years writing almost every day. My first novel grew to the length of 40,000 words, then I threw it away. My second novel grew to 140,000 words. I didn't throw it away, but it was rejected about 50 times by agents. My next novel ended up at around 55,000 words, which I showed to a few friends and shelved. Then I wrote Dead Religion, which is the only reason I have an author page at Amazon.
I have had four short stories published, paid and unpaid. 'Effects May Vary' won an award that was voted on by readers, which was pretty cool.
I'm currently getting my Masters in Business at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business. I'm doing this in order to not deliver pizzas but still keep the lights on. I have a girlfriend who will soon be my fiancé, and after ten years, I imagine she's ready for that title.
I want to own a yacht.
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April 8, 2019
Goodreads has this book as number 5 in The Singularity series although the book itself is labeled as the first in the follow-on series The Singularity Rising. Strangely, the author's website doesn't mention the follow-on series or this book at all. But, I digress ....
Just as Genesis, including Caesar (who, after opposing it, became the third major entity of humankind's digital overlord trinity), are about to purge Earth of the majority of its human inhabitants for the second time, the author introduces characters who offer a new counter to Genesis, one which holds the potential of finally breaking the AI's stranglehold on all human life. This new plot line runs counter to the strong pessimism regarding the human race prevalent in the earlier series, and seems to offer an answer to the question I posed in my review of the preceding book as to whether the author is irredeemably negative on the human race or perhaps holds out hope for humans' long-term survival separate from the control of a non-human intelligence.
With my interest and curiosity invigorated, I've begun the next installment.
As in the previous volume, there were a few proofreading/editing escapes, this time mostly misuse of subjective and objective pronouns. These little things grate on one's internal ear, so to speak, but not sufficiently to keep me from continuing to read the series. Perhaps it's unrealistic, but I keep hoping that people who aspire to make a living with words will use them correctly.
Just as Genesis, including Caesar (who, after opposing it, became the third major entity of humankind's digital overlord trinity), are about to purge Earth of the majority of its human inhabitants for the second time, the author introduces characters who offer a new counter to Genesis, one which holds the potential of finally breaking the AI's stranglehold on all human life. This new plot line runs counter to the strong pessimism regarding the human race prevalent in the earlier series, and seems to offer an answer to the question I posed in my review of the preceding book as to whether the author is irredeemably negative on the human race or perhaps holds out hope for humans' long-term survival separate from the control of a non-human intelligence.
With my interest and curiosity invigorated, I've begun the next installment.
As in the previous volume, there were a few proofreading/editing escapes, this time mostly misuse of subjective and objective pronouns. These little things grate on one's internal ear, so to speak, but not sufficiently to keep me from continuing to read the series. Perhaps it's unrealistic, but I keep hoping that people who aspire to make a living with words will use them correctly.
February 6, 2018
Very good.
March 2, 2019
Wow
I.just can't get enough of this book series, it should really be made into a film. The storyline is fantastic
I.just can't get enough of this book series, it should really be made into a film. The storyline is fantastic
August 27, 2019
Gave up on this after the 4th book. Very bad and boring story
October 2, 2016
When I first learned there'd be a new Singularity series I had mixed feelings. I really liked how the first series ended tho a few readers didn't. I felt that I knew what choice Caesar would make and didn't need it spelled out for me in a subsequent series. But the first series was so riveting and thought-provoking, I couldn't help but be intrigued by the new one. And wow, David Beers did not disappoint!. He's taken the story in a direction I completely didn't expect and I am so hooked!!! Thanks for another knock out read David! Waiting very impatiently for the next book!!
October 1, 2016
 "...thought you knew the future ... you don't",
This review is from: The Singularity Rising: Choice: (The Singularity Series 5/7) (Kindle Edition)
What a stunning cover. Inside is even better ...
The uprising of the Named to overthrow the world control of Genesis, the all powerful A.I., failed. But somehow the leader of the revolutionaries, Caesar, negotiated a truce - and humanity was given five centuries to prove it was worth saving without genetic modification, or else face another massive purging. Now the time is up and Caesar's gamble has failed again. Some 90% of the population face the threat of annihilation. But whilst most wait in fear or hope to learn if they will be one of the chosen survivors, a new force is rising: Lexi is here and she intends to destroy The Genesis and change the world.
Written in his distinctive sympathetic character rich style, David Beers' latest book in the Singularity series is as imaginative and enthralling as it's predecessors. Told from several different points of view, we remeet old friends as well as new as their hopes, fears and adventures intertwine and twist in this, the first part of what promises to be an exciting, perhaps even terrifying glimpse of humanity evolving in the emergence of something new.
As this book does build on the earlier volumes, it is best if they have been read first (and they are so well worth reading so why wouldn't you?), but not essential as there is a brief synopsis at the beginning. Definitely recommended to all science fiction fans. This is something very different from the usual.
My thanks to the author for gifting me an advanced copy. I very much look forward to the next installment - I have absolutely no idea where this will take us, but I know it will be a continuing fantastic journey
This review is from: The Singularity Rising: Choice: (The Singularity Series 5/7) (Kindle Edition)
What a stunning cover. Inside is even better ...
The uprising of the Named to overthrow the world control of Genesis, the all powerful A.I., failed. But somehow the leader of the revolutionaries, Caesar, negotiated a truce - and humanity was given five centuries to prove it was worth saving without genetic modification, or else face another massive purging. Now the time is up and Caesar's gamble has failed again. Some 90% of the population face the threat of annihilation. But whilst most wait in fear or hope to learn if they will be one of the chosen survivors, a new force is rising: Lexi is here and she intends to destroy The Genesis and change the world.
Written in his distinctive sympathetic character rich style, David Beers' latest book in the Singularity series is as imaginative and enthralling as it's predecessors. Told from several different points of view, we remeet old friends as well as new as their hopes, fears and adventures intertwine and twist in this, the first part of what promises to be an exciting, perhaps even terrifying glimpse of humanity evolving in the emergence of something new.
As this book does build on the earlier volumes, it is best if they have been read first (and they are so well worth reading so why wouldn't you?), but not essential as there is a brief synopsis at the beginning. Definitely recommended to all science fiction fans. This is something very different from the usual.
My thanks to the author for gifting me an advanced copy. I very much look forward to the next installment - I have absolutely no idea where this will take us, but I know it will be a continuing fantastic journey
November 29, 2016
I am voluntarily giving my review of this book.
This is the nex book the series know as The Singularity Rising. We see what happens to Ceaser and Jerry, Leon and the other. As well as the start of a new group of people. You really didn't need to read the last set of books, this one brings you up to date pretty well.
In this book, we have Ceaser wondering if he did the right thing, five hundred years ago, maybe that is why he made a deal with the Genisis. But like they say, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it, and now things are not going as planed. There are others that now that feel there should be a change and change is coming either way. All in all a good book, can't wait for the next one.
This is the nex book the series know as The Singularity Rising. We see what happens to Ceaser and Jerry, Leon and the other. As well as the start of a new group of people. You really didn't need to read the last set of books, this one brings you up to date pretty well.
In this book, we have Ceaser wondering if he did the right thing, five hundred years ago, maybe that is why he made a deal with the Genisis. But like they say, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it, and now things are not going as planed. There are others that now that feel there should be a change and change is coming either way. All in all a good book, can't wait for the next one.
December 30, 2016
Another 500 years has passed, a time period that The Genesis agreed it would give Caesar to run his plan for humanity, but it has failed, large swathes of society have fallen apart and so the clock must be reset. Another Reckoning is imminent, but first Caesar must identify the apparent genetic anomaly that is turning up in a small proportion of the population. Meanwhile, a new force is rising, one that aims to unite humanity and defeat The Genesis for once and for all.
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