Fin

by Larry Enright

The year is 402 A.B., anno bellum, the year of the war. The day the Great War began was the day the old world passed into history. They called it the war to end all wars, but it was the beginning of the end. There were so many versions of how it began, who was to blame, who was righteous and who was not; so many conflicting accounts and so much finger pointing that no one knew the truth of it anymore. No one cared. After the first strike and inevitable retaliations, what difference did it make who launched the first missile or which country dropped the first bomb or who was right and who was wrong? Mankind had set the world ablaze. Billions died in seconds. Governments fell in hours. Countries disappeared overnight. Civilization crumbled. After causing the extinction of so many other species, Homo sapiens, the wise man, nearly caused his own. Some said it was a miracle any survived. Others said survival was man’s Purgatory; that he hadn’t suffered enough for his sins, that he deserved the fate of fighting to his bitter end. This is the story of that end. This is the story of Fin.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2018

About the author

Larry Enright is an award-winning and best-selling author. He lives on a farm where he grows his stories in peaceful climes.

Find him at larryenright.com

Reviews

[Marcus · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second best creation story I have ever read (Genesis by Bernard Beckett will probably be #1 forever in my list). Oddly enough this is my second straight AI/religion book I've read this month. The first was the I, Seymour short story series by Jeff Stover (also worth reading). The book will draw you in quickly with a wonderfully developed protagonist who questions his reason for being. The concept of AI's having religion is also fascinating, as most AI stories consider them too rational to explore faith or that which is not provable (I, Seymour was really the first book I read that approached it from that angle). High marks for the ending which has a plot twist almost as good as "Genesis".

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's like someone saw the I, Robot movie and read 1984 and thought they would go together nicely.

I like the twist [s] at the end, but the reveal[s] we're a little like the last scene of Murder By Death.

Like, two people will get that and love it

[NormaCenva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I wasn't expecting THAT ending! Interesting if there will be any continuation of the story? Really well-realised world-building here.