ALL THE STARS ARE SUNS

De: Seaby Brown

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

“On the night in question, you took a walk with your friends. Tell me what happened.”

“Friends and I walk. See pretty girl walk. Talk to girl. Try make friend. Not hurt girl. Girl hurt friends and I,” Tai said in a self-indulgent defensive tone.

“You say you tried to talk to a girl? What girl?” Franks asked in a tone that indicated that she didn’t already know the answer and was mildly perplexed.

“Pretty girl. Try make friend with her. Girl look afraid. We not hurt girl. Ask my friends. Girl very fast hurt friends and I. We not hurt girl. We not try hurt girl.”

“Are you saying that you didn’t try to steal Quan?” Franks asked surprised.

“Yes, always Peace Force charge me with try hurt girls. I not hurt girls. Share fun with girls. Girls like fun. Share drugs with girls. Girls not remember fun. Girls angry not remember fun,” Tai said with an aggrieved expression.

“Mr. Tai, are you under the impression that you are being charged with sexual assault?”

Welcome to the late 23rd Century. Life is good, but not perfect... The glory days of Silicon Valley are long ago. Even China is losing out to space based industry and research centers. More and more people on Earth are losing interest in jobs and are relying on their Universal Basic Income as automation provides enough for all. No one goes hungry or homeless but cracks are forming in the foundations of society. The world is growing smaller as International Chinese English, a blend of Chinese grammar with English words becomes the most commonly understood spoken language for both day to day speech and the net. While in space, English and Russian are merging... making the split between the Spaceborn and Dirtsiders ever harder to bridge. Humanity is colonizing Mars and the upper atmosphere of Venus. Numerous corporation owned space stations orbiting the Earth manufacture high tech products in microgravity. The Spaceborn are now looking to expand further, while on Earth, from the mass of effectively unemployed develops a group that is disaffected and resentful of the Spaceborn turns into an anti-space technology religious movement even as the Diaspora Foundation works with the corporations to develop further technology that it hopes will take humanity to the stars. All Sincerity Espinosa wants out of life is the chance to go to the stars but she is caught in a web of misunderstandings, political & legal maneuvering, and the growing threat of terrorist plots by religious fanatics. She has a secret that if found out too soon could mean not only her own death but the ruin of the hope for humanity ever going to the stars. Rufus Quinn, Assembly Member of the TransPacific Alliance is determined to get to expose what Neoneural, Inc. is designing in their secretive Universe City lab. Dr. M'beki is just as determined to protect his life's work. Charlyne Matsumoto, Chairwoman of the Board of Neoneural works to protect the secrets of the Diaspora Foundation from both the NeoLuddites like Quinn, and various terrorist splinter groups under the banner of the Dominionists. This story is not one of high drama or tense intrigue. It is a novel of ideas and a sincere vision of our future both on Earth and in Space, told by a futurist who is predicting it by inventing it. For the student of technologies as diverse as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Neurology, Biochemistry, and Genetic Engineering... this book brings them all together in a very realistic, "Hard SciFi" story.