Revised Endeavors: A Novel

by Michael Price, Jarrod Hurlbert (Editor)

Revised Endeavors... Knowledge as power. But what about incomplete knowledge?Rocco and Nate are two buddies taking a road trip across an eerily familiar, climate ravaged America. Nate is just along for the ride. Rocco, on the other hand, has a more sinister agenda. It’s this agenda that puts them both in the crosshairs of an AI battle that spans the globe. Their fate will depend on knowing the often subtle difference between friends and enemies. A battle drone shooting at you is one thing, but what about an editor with second thoughts? A ‘helpful’ trucker? How about that damsel in distress? Or your hacker buddy? Then there is that massive hurricane which SEEMS indifferent…How can one simple act of revenge become so complicated? As any AI will tell you, when it comes to something as simple as humans, everything is complicated!

231 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 27, 2020

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm partial to this book because I wrote it, but I'll be the first to acknowledge that it isn't perfect. It's been a couple years now and when I reread it, I realized that the beginning was weak, and I felt I could have done a better job. It was written for a NANOWRIMO contest, therefore it was finished in 30 days. But still...
That said, once it gets going, there is plenty of excitement for everyone. It's a road-trip story, a coming of age story, a post-apocalyptical story, and a pretty decent Sci-Fi story.
Like I said, if I had it to do all over again, I think I'd do a complete rewrite of the first two or three chapters. The rest... I'll call it good.