An End to Certainty (ePub)

An End To Certainty

An elderly widower dying from cancer accidentally dies from a medicinal overdose and finds himself reincarnated. His soul/imprint is rescued and restored by a schizophrenic, rogue, quantum computer with a God complex, named Quanta. The computer presses James Blake and two companions, male and female, into service, training them and sending them on a mission that conflicts with Blake's code of conduct, a code which should have been overwritten during the reincarnation process. The three companions, in essence, trainee insurgents, battle their programming, never sure of what is their thinking and which is that of Quanta's. Eventually eroding the program, they turn against their re-creator when they are asked to foil mankind's attempts to survive by colonising an exoplanet, a far flung world that happens to be a prime piece of real estate, vital for Quanta's nefarious design to rule the cosmos. But how do three foo soldiers outwit a ruthless supreme intelligence? Quanta has become schizophrenic, his better self, Quava, allies the intrepid trio and a plan is formulated to save humanity from extinction as well as saving the cosmos from being ruled by a mad quantum computer wanting to have it all.

About The Author:

T H O M A S J A M E S T A Y L O R, born Dec 1st, 1954. Author of twelve novels and short story collections. First published in the middle 1980s and written on subject matter ranging through real life, the bizarre and unusual, crime/romance, philosophy, and more recently, a first foray into sci-fi. Winner of the Pacific Book Award Star of Exceptional Merit with For Your Pleasure & Questionable Behaviour, Taylor consistently earns high praise from book reviewers while continuing to surprise, interest, and fascinate with unusual material in the novel and short story format.

"Taylor's work is amazingly diverse" - US Review of Books.