A Child Of Our Time

The Veil: Seen and Not Seen #2

by William Bowden

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Eminent psychologist Lucius Gray is drafted in to investigate a mysterious machine based intelligence, discovered in the laboratories of the failed corporation Cantor Satori, and coveted by a powerful General in the Pentagon.

Through earning its trust the Lucius forms a deep bond with the shy and secretive machine, a bond that not only reveals the machine’s true nature, but threatens the General’s plans to gain control of it.

A Child Of Our Time is both a technological thriller and heart breaking story of Man and Machine, each forced to confront the other’s predicament, each faced with the hardest of choices.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 7, 2015

About the author

William Bowden is a British science fiction author with a predilection for the general weirdness of the Universe, what it means to be human, and how the two might be connected.

He lives in the west of England.

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Reviews

[P.S. Winn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second book in this series and a like it better than the first, although both books are well written stories that make readers think. With artificial intelligence seeming to take over our lives more and more what will it be like to be human as we surrender to the intelligence that is artificial. The author captures our world's future and the problems that come with it in a thought provoking novel.

[Rod · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. Just brilliant!

The subject matter of the story is not a new idea, but the handling of it is new and interesting. A different perspective.

The story also flows and keeps the interest up. It isn't a long story but I read it much faster than many novels. Very well written. It is nice to read a novel by a self-published author which has been well edited.

I will be investigating other works by the author.

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had real mixed feelings about this book. Some of the characters are very easy to relate to and care about and some are barely fleshed out at all. The story is involving, yet only one of the several plot lines resolves at the end of the book. This IS a part of a series, but the author says that each book can stand on its own. It can't. I did enjoy the story, though, which involves what happens when scientists and engineers create an artificial intelligence which can think and learn and have a personality. If i were the author or editor of this book, i would have pared the number of characters down and concentrated on just one story line. Let the book truly stand on its own.

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found the content to be very interesting. The idea of advanced A.I. works for our world view of how those are supposed to work. why I gave it a lower score was because it was a bit strange to read. It was more like reading a script of movie shots. There wasn't a great sense of story. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes robotics and advanced A.I.

[joanne ohlman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting

I started the series, then found I had to keep reading to see and understand what was going to happen. Great writing. Love this author.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting story but needs a good editor

[Al_owl · Rating 5 out of 5]

So ready for this to be a movie

Action yes, but so much more. You are taken by Lucy and you want her to be more than anyone can foresee!