Briareos
Novels
In 1831 Alabama, slavery is on the verge of becoming a panacea. For Thomas Bailey, the feeling that something is wrong exists incongruous with being a plantation owner. It's not until a chance meeting with philosopher Howard Markham that he discovers the true nature of man and realizes the basic, essential, and crucial principle essential to freedom. But he finds that knowing what is right is one thing; doing what is right is quite another matter.
George Richards lives in a utopia where Neuromorphics- robots indistinguishable from humans- are the driver for a new Biotechnical-Industrial Revolution. And not everyone is happy about it. When humans start to disappear and are replaced with their biotechnical counterparts as a means to destroy the foundations of a society, the question arises: "How do you know who is who?"
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As an epistemologist, George is tasked with identifying Neuromorphics posing as human. He finds himself in the middle of a new kind of battle, a battle for ideas being waged within the system itself.
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Francesco is a painter and sculptor in the process of rediscovering that "man is the measure of all things." But surpassing the ideas and achievements of contemporary society proves to be more challenging than he could imagine.
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Amidst a virus that paralyzes the conceptual faculty, Bass Reeves finds himself separated from his infected wife...as he is working to discover the cure. As society begins to fragment around him he must achieve that which seems impossible...living a rational life in an irrational world.
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Rien Andreen lives in a perfect society of the future where everybody is the same, no one is better off than any other, where everyone's needs are met, and where all of life's challenges and adversities are taken care of. All anyone has to do is what they are told. But there is a problem.
He isn't happy.
When he is suddenly chosen for the role as interrogator for a disembodied brain everything changes. The answers to his questions are like nothing he could imagine. Could it be possible that everything he knew, everything he had been told...was wrong? His every premise is challenged and turned upside down.
What is this brain? Where did it come from? What exactly is it saying? What do the social engineers want from it? Where will it lead Rien and what will he do now? This is where the story begins....