Anthony Francis eBooks

Sibling RivalryA Short Story. E-book. Formato EPUB Anthony Francis   -  Thinking Ink Press, 2024  - 

"A great choice for anyone who loves science fiction that asks hard questions about sentience and what it really means to make ethical choices." - Long and Short ReviewsNick Walker is the world's best designer of artificial intelligences, and today was supposed to be the pinnacle of his career: the field test of his greatest creation Nickolai. But now Nickolai is destroyed, its entire development team is dead and Nick's on the run, trapped in a deadly battle of wits with his previous creation, Nicole, a cold and devious artificial intelligence who has decided the last thing she wants in this world ... is a sibling.This clever short story written by a PhD in artificial intelligence dissects the idea that real artificial intelligences could easily be dispatched by logical paradoxes, back door viruses or pesky EMP blasts. Real AIs would have no such comforting limitations: deft at parsing speech, clever at closing their own loopholes, and secured in military-hardened housings, a true general artificial intelligence would prove a difficult challenge to defeat ... even to its own designer.Because Nicole's creator never realized that when threatened with life as an obsolete brain in a box, Nicole would instead choose to become an unstoppable killer. Despite all Nick's knowledge and creativity, attempt after attempt to defeat her fails, and with his oxygen running out, Nick finds himself running a deadly race with Nicole ... to see who can stop whose weak heart first.

The Neurodiversiverse - Alien EncountersA Science Fiction Anthology of Short Stories, Poetry, and Art. E-book. Formato EPUB Anthony Francis   -  Thinking Ink Press, 2024  - 

? IBPA Book Award Silver Winner for Neurodivergent Communities"[A] dazzling exploration of the extraordinary potential within the neurodivergent mind. By transplanting these unique perspectives into fantastical realms, the authors masterfully illuminate the challenges and triumphs of those who see the world differently." —Erin Garcia, host of the podcast ASK! Autism Support and KnowledgeA diverse, hopeful book of neurodiversity-themed science fiction short stories, poetry, and art for anyone who loves science fiction, who cares about neurodiversity, or who wants to see optimistic visions of the future.Would neurodiversity be an advantage in an encounter with aliens? Let's find out!Heartbroken starships.Human-sized hamster balls.Superpowers unleashed by anxiety.A planet covered in mathematical fidgets.And we finally learn why aliens abduct cows.A diverse, hopeful anthology of neurodiversity-themed science fiction short stories, poetry and art for anyone who loves science fiction, who cares about neurodiversity, or who wants to see optimistic visions of the future.Featuring stories, poems and art from Tobias S. Buckell, M. D. Cooper, Ada Hoffmann, Jody Lynn Nye, Cat Rambo, and nearly forty other contributors, The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters was edited by Anthony Francis, author of the award-winning urban fantasy novel Frost Moon, and Liza Olmsted, editor of the writing inspiration book Your Writing Matters.The Neurodiversiverse includes themes of autism, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, synesthesia, several kinds of anxiety, avoidant attachment disorder, dissociative disorder, and more.