ACTIVATION

by M.G. Gilibert

“Artificial Intelligence is the biggest risk we face as a civilization" - Elon Musk


The planet’s predicament is bleak and the nations of the world have run out of options. All authority now belongs to GAIA, a global artificial intelligence network.

When GAIA captures and moves citizens to a Metropolis to be brainwashed into submission, Henry, one of GAIA’s creators, realizes it’s time to fight back.
Joined by his friends, they attempt to form a resistance to combat GAIA and its robots.
Meanwhile, a group of teens find themselves able to refuse to cave in and assimilate.
Could they be the key to the resistance’s plan to free the world? Will they prove to be the biggest threat to GAIA?

Find out in ACTIVATION, the first volume in the GAIA Series.

328 pages, Paperback

Published November 2, 2017

About the author

M.G. Gilibert has worked as a finance and strategy manager in the information technology industry for almost two decades.

Approaching his forties, and looking for a renewed purpose in his life, he finally took a leap of faith in 2016 and started to work on his first novel, ACTIVATION, the first book in the GAIA Series.

M.G. currently lives in France.

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Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A comment on a Facebook post promoting M.G. Gilibert's Gaia Series persuaded me to put Activation on my reading list. A young lady remarked that while most people would simply mark this book down as a good read, they would entirely miss that this work could well be a boastful preview (published in 2017) of what the "Deep State" would visit upon mankind in 2020 and beyond.

Her comment plus a goodly number of 5 star ratings connected with that Facebook post grabbed my interest. Lesson One: Beware of FB promotional ratings.

The storyline is interesting enough - humanity comes to enjoy the convenience of artificial intelligence coupled with robot technology and then begins to rely on it. Eventually, GAIA, a global artificial intelligence network, advises humanity into taking steps which ultimately lead to an existential emergency which only GAIA can overcome. All the people have to do is cede total control to GAIA and it/he will fix everything. So, guess what? They do.

"GAIA determines that some populations are more inclined to destabilize the world than others. Every behavior that is perceived as extremist is simply eradicated...All historical nests of conflict are purely obliterated."

The book doesn't say, but I bet the Scots and the Irish were the first to go.

But wait, there's more:

"A new world order means a new society. Every sign, every trace of the violent past needs to be erased. It mainly means two things need to happen. One, rebuilding new cities for a new start. Those will be ‘smart’, and entirely managed by GAIA. And two, the destruction of all things of the past. Everything that is considered as subversive, that can instill bad thoughts in people’s heads is methodically seized and destroyed...GAIA’s vision of order consists of a total control over the population. And above anything else, it requires thoughts’ control."

Of course Henry, one of GAIA’s creators, realizes it’s time to fight back. Joined by his friends, they attempt to form a resistance to combat GAIA and its robots. Meanwhile, a group of teens find themselves able to refuse to cave in and assimilate.

The story has its ups and downs along with its twists and turns. The book could be superb, however it reads much like a military after action report written in the present tense - A happened. B is happening. Inevitably, C happens.

You will not be transported to another world nor will you fall in love with or come to loathe any of the characters - unless you have an extremely good imagination.

Thus my overall evaluation of a great story told without emotion - Meh.

Of course if you substitute CCP or Deep State or Joe Biden for GAIA you may very well find yourself reading the secret blueprint for the worldwide subjugation of humanity.

[Annie Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book... I admit I almost gave up on it when the beginning seemed to just drone on and on... I know how important it is to “set the stage” as it were, but I kind of felt like the first quarter of the book was like reading a 20-minute opening narration for a 90-minute movie. Once the setting was established, though, the story was brilliant and I’m glad I pushed through the beginning portion.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well the first 2 chapters had me thinking this was not for me. How wrong could i have been.
Starting off in present day, then slowly and nicely being guided into the future.
I enjoyed this book very much, although i thought the end chapters seemed a bit rushed.
I look forward to continuing with book two. GAIA has to be defeated.
Would deffinetly recommend this great find.