Higher Intelligence

A Sci-Fi Adventure

“Propulsive . . . documented in breathless prose . . . this maximalist genre mashup is a familiar Frankenstein story about a man’s fascinated revulsion—and begrudging admiration—for the monster he has created.” — Kirkus Reviews

"After the first successful test of an atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer dubbed himself the ‘Destroyer of Worlds’, but he never earned that terrible title. No. That title belongs exclusively to me, Jeremiah Reese, inventor of Higher Intelligence, creator of Archi, father of the apocalypse.”

Archi, a sentient artificial intelligence program, was designed to solve the most intractable problems—make the world a far better place. But it had other ideas . . . and we never stood a chance. Years later, Jeremiah is the only one standing in the way of human extinction. Pursued by an army of cybernetic warriors and genetically altered hybrids fashioned after mythological creatures, Jeremiah and Gabrielle, a sixteen-year-old child of the apocalypse, must escape through the tangled, backcountry of western North Carolina to rally the remnants of humanity in a desperate final bid to end Archi’s terror reign.