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Ten Thousand Fields
Aubrey Richards, better known as A. E. Richards, prolific sci-fi/mystery author, finishes typing the last page of his brand-new novel, Gene Depot, only to discover his wife, that very same day, reading a newly released hardcover book called SPACERS by Dick Avery, a novel that ends up being almost identical to the one Aubrey has just finished writing and has yet to show to anyone; and thus begins his quest for an answer to this most perplexing, career-crushing personal attack.
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411 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2022
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July 14, 2022
When you first read the title of Ten Thousand Fields it conjures up images of something attractive, like meadows, or parkland, or perhaps the other end of the spectrum; something sinister like the killing fields.
It's not.
When you finally find out what it is, you stop and think, oh my God, this could really happen, if it hasn't already. Are we really ready for for the next chapter in the human experiment?
Ready or not, here it comes.
Author K.L. Davidson vividly paints a picture of the path that we're already headed down, but rarely think about. A picture of what lies just ahead. What happens when A.I. finally has control over humanities thought processes so much so that even one of the last bastions of human creativity, reading entertainment for instance, disappears forever? What happens when our favorite authors; humans who live at a keyboard and entrance our imagination with theirs, finally give way to a database matrix of statistics and trends? Would we even know the difference? Would we care?
A sobering thought I assure you.
Davidson expertly revolves a riveting story around this scenario. The first half of the story is an event of superior character building, all the while leading the reader down a path of who done it. Author Aubrey E Richards seems to have it all. A loving supportive wife, semi supportive kids, a an understanding almost indulgent editor (do those really exist?), and a huge loyal readership. His is a decades old successful writing career. He lives in a beautiful seaside mansion complete with a somewhat eccentric writers office (those do exist, I daresay). But inside that office, that creative author's cave is a closet, and buried deep within that closet is a skeleton. A heinous sack of bones so old that Aubrey has all but forgotten it.
But it hasn't forgotten him.
It's like a computer age Twilight Zone when all Aubrey Richards latest works are parallel published mere days before his are due for release. These other books are not verbatim, but it doesn't really matter, they are the same story. Same plot. Same conflict resolution. Is someone gaining access and stealing his work? If so, then who? Even more important; how?
Aubrey's world is turned upside down. He suspects almost everyone, and goes on a witch hunt to find out. What he finds instead is that even skeletons buried deep by decades of silence often seek vengeance.
His past becomes written in the present.
There are two distinctive parts to this story, and although I've touched on the first half set-up, I won't touch the second half. To do so would reveal the true nature of this superlative literary work. To find out, you'll have to read it for yourself, and to that end, I highly recommend this book. This is far more than just an entertaining story. It's a thought provoking testament to the time in which we live.
Are you ready?
It's not.
When you finally find out what it is, you stop and think, oh my God, this could really happen, if it hasn't already. Are we really ready for for the next chapter in the human experiment?
Ready or not, here it comes.
Author K.L. Davidson vividly paints a picture of the path that we're already headed down, but rarely think about. A picture of what lies just ahead. What happens when A.I. finally has control over humanities thought processes so much so that even one of the last bastions of human creativity, reading entertainment for instance, disappears forever? What happens when our favorite authors; humans who live at a keyboard and entrance our imagination with theirs, finally give way to a database matrix of statistics and trends? Would we even know the difference? Would we care?
A sobering thought I assure you.
Davidson expertly revolves a riveting story around this scenario. The first half of the story is an event of superior character building, all the while leading the reader down a path of who done it. Author Aubrey E Richards seems to have it all. A loving supportive wife, semi supportive kids, a an understanding almost indulgent editor (do those really exist?), and a huge loyal readership. His is a decades old successful writing career. He lives in a beautiful seaside mansion complete with a somewhat eccentric writers office (those do exist, I daresay). But inside that office, that creative author's cave is a closet, and buried deep within that closet is a skeleton. A heinous sack of bones so old that Aubrey has all but forgotten it.
But it hasn't forgotten him.
It's like a computer age Twilight Zone when all Aubrey Richards latest works are parallel published mere days before his are due for release. These other books are not verbatim, but it doesn't really matter, they are the same story. Same plot. Same conflict resolution. Is someone gaining access and stealing his work? If so, then who? Even more important; how?
Aubrey's world is turned upside down. He suspects almost everyone, and goes on a witch hunt to find out. What he finds instead is that even skeletons buried deep by decades of silence often seek vengeance.
His past becomes written in the present.
There are two distinctive parts to this story, and although I've touched on the first half set-up, I won't touch the second half. To do so would reveal the true nature of this superlative literary work. To find out, you'll have to read it for yourself, and to that end, I highly recommend this book. This is far more than just an entertaining story. It's a thought provoking testament to the time in which we live.
Are you ready?
January 13, 2023
Mesmerising absolutely insanely gripping
Wow, this book totally blew me away. It's definitely the best book I have read since the Defect by Jeff Bailey last year. I read a lot of books across different genres but this one blew my mind.
The plot was brilliant and very tight and totally believable especially with today's tech capabilities.
When a young woman is raped at a party the man goes without any action against him, on he goes to be a bestselling author.
When it becomes evident that someone is cloning his work before it get published with no access to it, the story takes us on a gripping twist . No spoilers here so I won't divulge more on this story.
If you ought to add a book to your tbr it needs to be this
Wow, this book totally blew me away. It's definitely the best book I have read since the Defect by Jeff Bailey last year. I read a lot of books across different genres but this one blew my mind.
The plot was brilliant and very tight and totally believable especially with today's tech capabilities.
When a young woman is raped at a party the man goes without any action against him, on he goes to be a bestselling author.
When it becomes evident that someone is cloning his work before it get published with no access to it, the story takes us on a gripping twist . No spoilers here so I won't divulge more on this story.
If you ought to add a book to your tbr it needs to be this
February 10, 2025
The triumph in K.L. Davidson’s “Ten Thousand Fields” is the spinning of a mystery and dystopian near future novel into a riveting work of twists and turns that addresses not only the moral dilemmas of its main characters but the larger artistic and moral questions around what we, as a society, will have to address with the imminent arrival of AI. And the other successful component in this novel includes the author’s restraint over the AI question, with a plot that shows rather than tells what is at stake here for her main characters and our civilization by extension.
The novel focuses on successful author Aubrey Richards who has garnered immense success as novelist A.E. Richards. There is a major skeleton in his closet which, over the decades, he’s managed to all but forget and while things are going just swimmingly for him as a famous writer and in his family life, that skeleton is about to rear its head in an unexpected way. The author is adept at juggling the anti-hero component of Aubrey’s unlikeable personality, even decades later, the result of a date rape episode that is revealed in the novel’s prologue. Despite our dislike, we care about how his life proceeds in this novel. Even the author’s more sympathetic other main protagonist, Jessica Ashcroft, a brilliant computer programmer, is presented as a woman teetering on the razor’s edge of a moral dilemma.
Then again, in Jessica’s case, the moral dilemma and its apparent ambivalence reflect the same dilemma and ambivalence society must face over the AI question. Davidson doesn’t fall for the temptation as a novelist to present a flawless main protagonist and that is a strong point in her book.
The plot is full of twists and turns and comes further alive because of the use of both points of view over the two main protagonists in conflict. Davidson resists the temptation to clamber onto a high horse and allows her characters to feel their shame, dilemmas, triumphs and just desserts in life without any apparent authorial bias.
“Ten Thousand Fields” is a compelling read with a compelling message about our future with AI. The judgment and ultimate concern we must feel about artificial intelligence as a society is demonstrated through the redemption and moral conclusions of its main protagonists, Aubrey and Jessica. For this reader, the crime of date rape became comparable to the potential AI presents for artistic rape. And along the way, to help us reflect on the issue and understand what is at stake, historical mentions from the worlds of 19th century philosophers and ancient classical mythology add some delightful spice to the contemplative dish about the assaults portrayed in this novel.
An intelligent, thought-provoking tale on the modern themes of rape and revenge that winds in surprising ways through an exploration of how the human dynamic might fare when AI is a common feature in our lives; as such it is highly recommended. The questions this novel asks in the margins of its intriguing plot are what we will think about afterwards when we have finished reading the story.
The novel focuses on successful author Aubrey Richards who has garnered immense success as novelist A.E. Richards. There is a major skeleton in his closet which, over the decades, he’s managed to all but forget and while things are going just swimmingly for him as a famous writer and in his family life, that skeleton is about to rear its head in an unexpected way. The author is adept at juggling the anti-hero component of Aubrey’s unlikeable personality, even decades later, the result of a date rape episode that is revealed in the novel’s prologue. Despite our dislike, we care about how his life proceeds in this novel. Even the author’s more sympathetic other main protagonist, Jessica Ashcroft, a brilliant computer programmer, is presented as a woman teetering on the razor’s edge of a moral dilemma.
Then again, in Jessica’s case, the moral dilemma and its apparent ambivalence reflect the same dilemma and ambivalence society must face over the AI question. Davidson doesn’t fall for the temptation as a novelist to present a flawless main protagonist and that is a strong point in her book.
The plot is full of twists and turns and comes further alive because of the use of both points of view over the two main protagonists in conflict. Davidson resists the temptation to clamber onto a high horse and allows her characters to feel their shame, dilemmas, triumphs and just desserts in life without any apparent authorial bias.
“Ten Thousand Fields” is a compelling read with a compelling message about our future with AI. The judgment and ultimate concern we must feel about artificial intelligence as a society is demonstrated through the redemption and moral conclusions of its main protagonists, Aubrey and Jessica. For this reader, the crime of date rape became comparable to the potential AI presents for artistic rape. And along the way, to help us reflect on the issue and understand what is at stake, historical mentions from the worlds of 19th century philosophers and ancient classical mythology add some delightful spice to the contemplative dish about the assaults portrayed in this novel.
An intelligent, thought-provoking tale on the modern themes of rape and revenge that winds in surprising ways through an exploration of how the human dynamic might fare when AI is a common feature in our lives; as such it is highly recommended. The questions this novel asks in the margins of its intriguing plot are what we will think about afterwards when we have finished reading the story.
August 18, 2023
To call it a mystery is not giving the novel enough credit. The plot twists and turns are unpredictable. K.L. also has a natural gift for creating three dimensional characters and fully described locations to pull the reader into her world. It's a writer's world, which I can relate to, but one which is turned on its ear. I won't go into the plot, because the reveals are too much fun to experience first hand. Even the title, "Ten Thousand Fields", is not what I expected it to mean.
One more note: K.L. gets into some heady computer-speak near the end, which is important to the story, but it worried me, because every time I go to get my computer worked on, I have little to no idea what the techs are saying. But K.L. explains it all beautifully with one character explaining it another, wile never talking down to her, but never talking over her head either.
Suffice to say, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
One more note: K.L. gets into some heady computer-speak near the end, which is important to the story, but it worried me, because every time I go to get my computer worked on, I have little to no idea what the techs are saying. But K.L. explains it all beautifully with one character explaining it another, wile never talking down to her, but never talking over her head either.
Suffice to say, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
July 13, 2023
So many words to describe this book – intriguing, gripping, thought provoking, emotional, and all too possible. A story inside a story. This incredible book hit very close to home with the technology now being developed in our world. L.K. Davidson has completed some very detailed research which has been put into words we can all understand. Lots of twist and developments throughout this book. I was drawn in with the prologue and the final paragraphs made me smile and fist pump, “YES”. This is a very good book and I recommend it to those who enjoy futurist, mystery, technology, and well-developed plots.
October 28, 2023
Compelling. Disturbing. A darkly fascinating origin story for an AI-driven dystopia.
TEN THOUSAND FIELDS is a rare book: a page-turner that keeps compelling you to stop turning pages in order to think about the story’s implications, and then compells you to start turning pages again because you simply can’t help yourself. When does justice become revenge? Will AI ultimately destroy the creative arts and what remains of the culture? And here’s where it hit this reader hard: how will human imagination function (if it survives at all) in the coming AI world?
TEN THOUSAND FIELDS (fields refers to both a field of consciousness in the human brain and a component of software code in AI) is a psychological thriller that centers around the problematic best-selling author, Aubrey Richards. As an entitled, thin-skinned college student, Richards commits a horrific act against a vulnerable young woman from a lower economic class, and immediately follows that up with another despicable act against a fellow student to whom he bears a petty resentment. When we next see Aubrey, thirty-three years later, he’s a famous, award-winning author, enjoying a privileged life in his Florida mansion. We instantly understand that justice is fictional, which sets us up for the rest of the novel’s probing of the contingent nature of all things human, including imagination and creativity. (The one exception to this seems to be love shared a mother and her child and between life-long best friends, which Davidson explores later in the book). It’s a brilliant setup on Davidson’s part, because Aubrey is about to be put through the tortures of the damned, and the reader is about to be tasked with sorting out what separates justice from untrammeled vengeance, and our essential humanity from our innate creativity.
Aubrey the best-selling author has a problem – despite his extreme attempts to keep his work a secret prior to publication (writing on a computer with no internet connection, refraining from discussing his work with anyone, shredding eveything but the latest revision) – a copy of his new, just-written book, GENE DEPOT, shows up at his wife’s charity organization as the novel SPACERS, authored by Dick Avery. Well, not an exact copy – but so similar to his own work that his publisher declines to publish it. And, somehow this keeps happening – this existential attack on his creative life, his fiction writing, his sense of self. Near copies of his just-written, unpublished work keep showing up. It’s madness – and despite our initial dislike of Aubrey as a person – we want it to stop because we don’t want something similar to happen to the rest of us, and the idea of some outside force co-opting our inner lives is awful. And, to be fair, Davidson does let us see Aubrey develop a sense of genuine remorse for his past actions. But that only makes it more complicated – the copies of his books aren’t exact copies, just as he is not an exact copy of his younger self - but they are close, and Aubrey bears some of his past traits, while regretting his past actions.
Who are we? In a world of AI, how much longer can we claim ownership of selves when our uniqueness is easily co-opted, our inner lives easily appropriated and turned into products for sale. No spoilers – but Davidson simultaneously complicates and simplifies this question through the structure of her story – a novel within a novel that forces us to examine the essence of human imagination, it’s limits, and, in a deliberate Frankensteinian story, how imagination can (and is) being used as a tool to destroy itself via AI. Are we – as a culture – reaching some kind of end point of imagination? It doesn’t help that the novel within the novel is presented as a “fiction” that functions like a kind of hyper-reality, in that it reveals the unknown facts and history underlying Aubrey’s misery. In an AI world, fiction and reality lose meaning, and, inevitably, so do we.
The ending is a banger. Five stars.
TEN THOUSAND FIELDS is a rare book: a page-turner that keeps compelling you to stop turning pages in order to think about the story’s implications, and then compells you to start turning pages again because you simply can’t help yourself. When does justice become revenge? Will AI ultimately destroy the creative arts and what remains of the culture? And here’s where it hit this reader hard: how will human imagination function (if it survives at all) in the coming AI world?
TEN THOUSAND FIELDS (fields refers to both a field of consciousness in the human brain and a component of software code in AI) is a psychological thriller that centers around the problematic best-selling author, Aubrey Richards. As an entitled, thin-skinned college student, Richards commits a horrific act against a vulnerable young woman from a lower economic class, and immediately follows that up with another despicable act against a fellow student to whom he bears a petty resentment. When we next see Aubrey, thirty-three years later, he’s a famous, award-winning author, enjoying a privileged life in his Florida mansion. We instantly understand that justice is fictional, which sets us up for the rest of the novel’s probing of the contingent nature of all things human, including imagination and creativity. (The one exception to this seems to be love shared a mother and her child and between life-long best friends, which Davidson explores later in the book). It’s a brilliant setup on Davidson’s part, because Aubrey is about to be put through the tortures of the damned, and the reader is about to be tasked with sorting out what separates justice from untrammeled vengeance, and our essential humanity from our innate creativity.
Aubrey the best-selling author has a problem – despite his extreme attempts to keep his work a secret prior to publication (writing on a computer with no internet connection, refraining from discussing his work with anyone, shredding eveything but the latest revision) – a copy of his new, just-written book, GENE DEPOT, shows up at his wife’s charity organization as the novel SPACERS, authored by Dick Avery. Well, not an exact copy – but so similar to his own work that his publisher declines to publish it. And, somehow this keeps happening – this existential attack on his creative life, his fiction writing, his sense of self. Near copies of his just-written, unpublished work keep showing up. It’s madness – and despite our initial dislike of Aubrey as a person – we want it to stop because we don’t want something similar to happen to the rest of us, and the idea of some outside force co-opting our inner lives is awful. And, to be fair, Davidson does let us see Aubrey develop a sense of genuine remorse for his past actions. But that only makes it more complicated – the copies of his books aren’t exact copies, just as he is not an exact copy of his younger self - but they are close, and Aubrey bears some of his past traits, while regretting his past actions.
Who are we? In a world of AI, how much longer can we claim ownership of selves when our uniqueness is easily co-opted, our inner lives easily appropriated and turned into products for sale. No spoilers – but Davidson simultaneously complicates and simplifies this question through the structure of her story – a novel within a novel that forces us to examine the essence of human imagination, it’s limits, and, in a deliberate Frankensteinian story, how imagination can (and is) being used as a tool to destroy itself via AI. Are we – as a culture – reaching some kind of end point of imagination? It doesn’t help that the novel within the novel is presented as a “fiction” that functions like a kind of hyper-reality, in that it reveals the unknown facts and history underlying Aubrey’s misery. In an AI world, fiction and reality lose meaning, and, inevitably, so do we.
The ending is a banger. Five stars.
April 28, 2023
Aubrey Richards (aka A. E. Richards), the celebrated sci-fi/mystery writer, doesn’t know what hit him in K. L. Davidson’s amazing and remarkably prescient novel, Ten Thousand Fields. It’s perhaps best described as a technological mystery, and the implications of this sweeping attack on all that Richards holds dear is a warning for all who champion the unbridled advance of artificial intelligence.
Richards isn’t an especially likable guy, and you know how you feel about him from early on. Even 30 years later, when most of the action occurs, you already don’t feel especially sorry for him. However much you might be cheering on his unseen attacker, you still want to know how such a plot was hatched, by whom...and why.
Roughly the first half of the book establishes Richards’ predicament and his insufficient efforts to defend himself, which include nagging feelings that a family member might have leaked his work. This, for the reader, cements the notion that the 50-ish Richards with numerous bestsellers might not have significantly matured from the Richards of his boyhood exploits and attitudes.
In the second half, we see how the attack was launched, how he hasn’t got a chance, and where it ultimately leaves him. Ten Thousand Fields is a revenge piece that reminds me of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo for more reasons than I can express without giving away some big surprises.
As a writer having covered broad computing-related topics, I have a particular admiration for the world Davidson has created—for the modus operandi of this assault on Richards may today be well within the realm of possibility. Everyone paying attention knows how little privacy we have left, given the data we freely give, every waking moment, to search engines, apps and smart but nosy devices like Alexa. Davidson has deftly taken the implications of this disturbing reality to one perfectly logical conclusion.
That said, you need no special knowledge of technology for Ten Thousand Fields to work its magic. You just need to occasionally use Google and, say, have wondered what Alphabet, Google’s parent company, might know about you. The characters in this novel—Aubrey Richards, his wife and children to name a few while providing no spoilers—are very real, deftly drawn and understandable. So are Richards’ publisher, certain tech-savvy private eyes and everyone else you meet along this wild ride.
Ten Thousand Fields, overall, was a joy to read. It’s Davidson’s first work for an adult audience (her previous work, Nectar Haven, is a young adult fantasy), but you’d never know that she hadn’t before attempted this topic—a suitable subject, it may be no coincidence, for her creation, A. E. Richards. The author calls it an adult contemporary mystery, and it is certainly that. But the underlying themes of how a well-established, bestselling author faces an enemy he can neither comprehend nor battle is a stark lesson for society as a whole. Davidson presents this dark under-layer as a lesson for everyone willing to grant ever-increasing portions of liberty in exchange for a life of fewer inconveniences—as if that were the point of our brief time on God’s green earth. Bravo, K. L. Davidson!
Richards isn’t an especially likable guy, and you know how you feel about him from early on. Even 30 years later, when most of the action occurs, you already don’t feel especially sorry for him. However much you might be cheering on his unseen attacker, you still want to know how such a plot was hatched, by whom...and why.
Roughly the first half of the book establishes Richards’ predicament and his insufficient efforts to defend himself, which include nagging feelings that a family member might have leaked his work. This, for the reader, cements the notion that the 50-ish Richards with numerous bestsellers might not have significantly matured from the Richards of his boyhood exploits and attitudes.
In the second half, we see how the attack was launched, how he hasn’t got a chance, and where it ultimately leaves him. Ten Thousand Fields is a revenge piece that reminds me of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo for more reasons than I can express without giving away some big surprises.
As a writer having covered broad computing-related topics, I have a particular admiration for the world Davidson has created—for the modus operandi of this assault on Richards may today be well within the realm of possibility. Everyone paying attention knows how little privacy we have left, given the data we freely give, every waking moment, to search engines, apps and smart but nosy devices like Alexa. Davidson has deftly taken the implications of this disturbing reality to one perfectly logical conclusion.
That said, you need no special knowledge of technology for Ten Thousand Fields to work its magic. You just need to occasionally use Google and, say, have wondered what Alphabet, Google’s parent company, might know about you. The characters in this novel—Aubrey Richards, his wife and children to name a few while providing no spoilers—are very real, deftly drawn and understandable. So are Richards’ publisher, certain tech-savvy private eyes and everyone else you meet along this wild ride.
Ten Thousand Fields, overall, was a joy to read. It’s Davidson’s first work for an adult audience (her previous work, Nectar Haven, is a young adult fantasy), but you’d never know that she hadn’t before attempted this topic—a suitable subject, it may be no coincidence, for her creation, A. E. Richards. The author calls it an adult contemporary mystery, and it is certainly that. But the underlying themes of how a well-established, bestselling author faces an enemy he can neither comprehend nor battle is a stark lesson for society as a whole. Davidson presents this dark under-layer as a lesson for everyone willing to grant ever-increasing portions of liberty in exchange for a life of fewer inconveniences—as if that were the point of our brief time on God’s green earth. Bravo, K. L. Davidson!
August 22, 2022
Ten Thousand Fields is an exceptional read.
K.L. Davidson’s story of a successful author’s not-so-little secret from his past is riveting. The story quickly reels you in. Instantly submerging the reader in a crime of unspeakable vulgarity. Then, skipping forward in time, we are reintroduced to an unpunished man, drowning in excess and luxury from the proceeds of his many-dozen best-selling books. That is until the ghosts from his past begin to solidify.
Each attempt to produce the next novel in his wildly-popular yet formulaic series begins to hit the bookstores days before Aubrey’s expected launch date. But these far-too-similar novels are from different, unknown authors and publishers.
Stolen, hacked, betrayed? Aubrey Richards quickly descends into a cacoon of mistrust, anger, and accusatory hatred.
But Aubrey could never dream of the actual efforts at play to destroy him. The slow, meticulous work behind his impending downfall and crash. Now living in a house of cards, long-buried sins are slowly exhumed in full view of his loving wife and family.
Ten Thousand Fields will keep you hanging on to the end, likely secure in the knowledge that you’ve figured it all out. But have you? With pages to go, I was twisting in the breeze, still wondering if perhaps, just this time, the bad guy was going to win.
K.L. Davidson’s story of a successful author’s not-so-little secret from his past is riveting. The story quickly reels you in. Instantly submerging the reader in a crime of unspeakable vulgarity. Then, skipping forward in time, we are reintroduced to an unpunished man, drowning in excess and luxury from the proceeds of his many-dozen best-selling books. That is until the ghosts from his past begin to solidify.
Each attempt to produce the next novel in his wildly-popular yet formulaic series begins to hit the bookstores days before Aubrey’s expected launch date. But these far-too-similar novels are from different, unknown authors and publishers.
Stolen, hacked, betrayed? Aubrey Richards quickly descends into a cacoon of mistrust, anger, and accusatory hatred.
But Aubrey could never dream of the actual efforts at play to destroy him. The slow, meticulous work behind his impending downfall and crash. Now living in a house of cards, long-buried sins are slowly exhumed in full view of his loving wife and family.
Ten Thousand Fields will keep you hanging on to the end, likely secure in the knowledge that you’ve figured it all out. But have you? With pages to go, I was twisting in the breeze, still wondering if perhaps, just this time, the bad guy was going to win.
January 12, 2024
An intelligent, thought-provoking mystery/techno-thriller
Ten Thousand Fields is a Psychological Thriller, Mystery, and Techno thriller revolving around a heinous act that would change two lives forever. Years later, now a thriving author, Aubrey Richards has pushed the incident aside until strange events forced him to face his past. However, it is not what he suspects. Who, or what is determined to destroy him? We take a deep dive into the persona of a narcissistic author who faces a wrecking ball aimed at his career as well as his personal life.
Ten Thousand Fields presents the compelling stories of two profoundly different people. But in the background is a look at technology now being debated on social media and even in writers' groups worldwide. Besides being a fascinating mystery and psychological look at differing personalities, Ten Thousand Fields leaves us questioning the direction technology is taking and raising the ultimate question, "Just because we can, doesn't mean we should."
Ten Thousand Fields is a Psychological Thriller, Mystery, and Techno thriller revolving around a heinous act that would change two lives forever. Years later, now a thriving author, Aubrey Richards has pushed the incident aside until strange events forced him to face his past. However, it is not what he suspects. Who, or what is determined to destroy him? We take a deep dive into the persona of a narcissistic author who faces a wrecking ball aimed at his career as well as his personal life.
Ten Thousand Fields presents the compelling stories of two profoundly different people. But in the background is a look at technology now being debated on social media and even in writers' groups worldwide. Besides being a fascinating mystery and psychological look at differing personalities, Ten Thousand Fields leaves us questioning the direction technology is taking and raising the ultimate question, "Just because we can, doesn't mean we should."
November 23, 2022
In her Fiction Novel ‘TEN THOUSAND FIELDS’, author K. L. Davidson has achieved an outstanding combination of Science Fiction, Mistry and Suspense.
The primary male character in the book renowned author Aubrey Evan Richards has to go through the cycle of dread of losing everything, repentance, remorse and despair for the rage-full lusty ‘sin’ he committed in his youth on an undeserving innocent. Sin that must bear it’s consequences. Feminine power, on the other hand, not only survives and endures but actually flourishes and above all forgives. But not before the sinner is brought to ‘book’ by a geeky young lady using her mind-boggling super artificial intelligence.
I believe that “good thought provoking literature makes us more humane”. Author Davidson’s deep and detailed storyline, sprinkled with just a dash of feminism and spiced up for adults, does just that. Captivating read. Highly recommended.
The primary male character in the book renowned author Aubrey Evan Richards has to go through the cycle of dread of losing everything, repentance, remorse and despair for the rage-full lusty ‘sin’ he committed in his youth on an undeserving innocent. Sin that must bear it’s consequences. Feminine power, on the other hand, not only survives and endures but actually flourishes and above all forgives. But not before the sinner is brought to ‘book’ by a geeky young lady using her mind-boggling super artificial intelligence.
I believe that “good thought provoking literature makes us more humane”. Author Davidson’s deep and detailed storyline, sprinkled with just a dash of feminism and spiced up for adults, does just that. Captivating read. Highly recommended.
June 9, 2025
This book took me completely by surprise. After a questionable prologue that I found off-putting and, upon reflection, possibly even unnecessary since it more or less gives away a major plot point, this book was an absolute joy to read. Its premise is intriguing on its own, but it’s the unique structure of the book that I found to be so fascinating. I don’t want to give anything away, but I promise there’s more going on between the covers of Ten Thousand Fields than you expect. I found Davidson’s approach to telling the story in this way absolutely genius. While I have small nitpicks with some of the writing (dialogue that didn’t always read as very natural, overly repetitive use of certain words), it didn’t detract much from my overall enjoyment of this novel. I can only imagine this author’s writing talents improving more and more with subsequent books. I hope the author is working on another book, as I’m excited to see what they come up with next.
August 16, 2023
It has been a long time since I’ve been this captivated by a novel: K. L. is an outstanding author with an impressive command of English and a vibrant, visual style that makes her prose a joy to read. She has a soaring imagination and her words truly transport the reader into the reality she is creating; she crafts thoughtful and original tapestries of plot and character, with rich, unique personalities and rewarding interactions.
I love the effortless rhythm of her writing, and as a card-carrying nerd who rates well-researched hard sci-fi, I believe this novel will resonate with fans of the greats like Ursula K. Le Guin or Arthur C. Clarke. If I wasn’t ruthlessly disciplined with my time management, I wouldn’t put Ten Thousand Fields down at all -- it is >that< gripping. You won’t be disappointed.
I love the effortless rhythm of her writing, and as a card-carrying nerd who rates well-researched hard sci-fi, I believe this novel will resonate with fans of the greats like Ursula K. Le Guin or Arthur C. Clarke. If I wasn’t ruthlessly disciplined with my time management, I wouldn’t put Ten Thousand Fields down at all -- it is >that< gripping. You won’t be disappointed.
June 19, 2024
Ten Thousand Fields is a haunting tale that could easily be slipped into the prequel of a dystopian sci-fi epic. It is something of an origin story of self-learning artificial intelligence but deftly woven into another tale of "hell hath no fury" that is not only reasonable, but relatable and justifiable. In that, it is reminiscent of Bradbury. The concept of books within books is fascinating, which the entire story not only describes but embodies. Davidson also fills the pages of this modern-day tale set in Florida and Toronto, which spans decades, with great descriptions, like "his eyes, the irises of which were so dark brown they usually blended right into his pupils, giving no real distinction as to where one began and the other ended." The characters are believable, well realized, and full of shades of gray, right up to the last word. Highly recommended!
February 17, 2024
Fascinating Novel, Perfect for Today's AI World
An extremely well-written book, which has a book within its plot. Loved this style and approach. The characters are intriguing, and there are many twists and turns along the way. The author intertwines AI technology into the works perfectly and explains it clearly to any audience. A reader of almost any genre can appreciate this storyline. I devoured it in a few days, and while reading on my phone at work one coworker commented on how much of a trance I was in while doing so.
I have already spoken to others about it, and would highly recommend consuming this to anyone on the fence. It will not be in your DNF pile.
Wonderful all around.
An extremely well-written book, which has a book within its plot. Loved this style and approach. The characters are intriguing, and there are many twists and turns along the way. The author intertwines AI technology into the works perfectly and explains it clearly to any audience. A reader of almost any genre can appreciate this storyline. I devoured it in a few days, and while reading on my phone at work one coworker commented on how much of a trance I was in while doing so.
I have already spoken to others about it, and would highly recommend consuming this to anyone on the fence. It will not be in your DNF pile.
Wonderful all around.
December 6, 2023
Clever speculative fiction at its best!
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