Gary F Bengier

Gebundenes Buch

Unfettered Journey

Beschreibung

A literary cross-genre adventure and love story, for the intelligent reader. Winner of 14 book awards, including the Eric Hoffer Award. "Unfettered Journey is an existential adventure for the mind and a lot more besides." - Carly Newfeld, The Last Word, KSFR Santa Fe Public Radio (The hard cover editions are two books in one, as they include the separate book, Unfettered Journey Appendices.) Unfettered Journey follows Joe, an AI scientist, as he pursues the secret of AI - and his own - consciousness. He travels to a small college to escape life's frenetic pace and to find answers. But a mysterious woman on a personal mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, they are caught up by a malevolent plot. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future, this is a cross-genre novel combining thrilling action, adventure, and a love story. It traces an epic journey - from inside the human mind to the vastness of space, from AIs battling in the desert to the peace of a mountain refuge. It asks spiritual, social, and philosophical questions that will linger. How does the will to survive bring clarity to the human experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? How do we find meaning and purpose in a world dominated by technology? "It is so well-written...excellent storyline...one of those novels that stays with the reader long after the last page is finished." - The US Review of Books

Autor

Gary F. Bengier is a writer, philosopher, and technologist.We all have many journeys. Gary's began in a small Midwest town, where he could play unfettered in the woods, finding an early love for nature and learning self-reliance. The space program and the night skies hooked him on astronomy. After finishing college, the wide world beckoned, and his fascination with science drew him to California to participate in the booming tech industry. Now he still stares upward, wondering what it all is about.After a career in Silicon Valley, Gary pursued passion projects, studying astrophysics and philosophy. He's spent the last two decades thinking about how to live a balanced, meaningful life in a rapidly evolving technological world. This self-reflective journey infuses his novels with insights about our future and the challenges we will face in finding purpose.Before turning to writing speculative fiction, Gary worked in a variety of Silicon Valley tech companies. He was eBay's Chief Financial Officer and led the company's initial and secondary public offerings. Gary has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MA degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University. He has two children with Cynthia, his wife of forty-seven years. When not traveling the world, he raises bees and makes a nice Cabernet at the family's Napa vineyard. He and his family live in San Francisco.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chiliagon Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9781648860188
• ISBN-10: 1648860184
• Artikelnr.: 60154917