Nightmare in Silicon

[abouttheauthor]

I've just finished my second book, Nightmare in Silicon. Here's the synopsis:

Ymo is a girl.
Ymo gets sick.
Ymo will die.
Ymo gets turned into a robot (not a girl).
Robots don't die.
Robots don't sleep.
Robots don't dream.

I might post some excerpts later.

Comments

[gimpjesus]

sweet

[abouttheauthor]

word

[iamred]

i added you, and i hope you dont mind..
you are one of the best writers i have ever got to read.
and you being a friend of splinternails, the best writer i have ever read...you are perfect.

[abouttheauthor]

Thank you so much! What the fuck happened to splinternails? I miss that kid!

[iamred]

you are veryy welcome.

im not sure...
i have gotten a few text messages via my lj profile over the past year about splinternails...very cryptic stuff...

the last one i got was about www.qu13e.com .
the day i got the message i looked around and looked at the site and something clicked to look up the name via LJ and a journal came up for it qu13e and it was created earlier that day. so i added it to my friends list.. i was the only one that had it on my friends list.. a few days later i checked it..the style had been changed but never updated...and then about 3 weeks later a bunch of people started contacting via lj, myspace, deviantart, email, messenger, and a few other places asking me how i was related to him, if i know him in person, if i have slept with him, etc.. etc. because apparently they were playing some kinda game.

i checked the journal again and like 5 other people added qu13e and another journal called sparkrent started. so i dont know what is going on

[abouttheauthor]

I hadn't seen sparkrent.

I love that he's so popular he can hide and people still try to find him. I had just posted on a messageboard about him cause someone there had a similar name (splinter-something), and I asked if that was him, and then someone found the post and pointed me to the qu13e site. Guess it could just be all his followers and he's not even involved.

[guilty]

Does Ymo go quietly (or noisily) insane?

[abouttheauthor]

Are those her only choices?

[guilty]

You tell me; it's your story.

Either one strikes me as quite a sensible option tho, given the circumstances.

Altho, "insane" is possibly not an adequate word, being human in definition, and Ymo being (possibly) no longer human. To quote the almighty Dixie Flatline;

"Now me, I'm alive. Or at least it feels like I am. But I ain't gonna write you no poem. Now your AI, it just might. But it ain't no way gonna be human. Got me?"

And I'm guessing that's your point, right there. Is humanity defined by form? Longevity? Outside the limits of our bodies, are we human? If not, what?

Christ. It really has been a long day.

[abouttheauthor]

No, that's not really my point. It explores some new issues from what's already been done.

[zombiegoat]

Soooooo, any chance of getting a sneak read? I promise I'll buy it in print when it comes out in the stores... you've been put over quite a bit, and I'd like to see the steak that goes with the sizzle.

[abouttheauthor]

Yeah, give me your email.

[zombiegoat]

zombiegoat 73 at g mail dot com (no spaces, retranslated). Thank you very much. Shall I read it as Casual Reader, Merciless Editor or a cross between the two?

[anonymous]

Where are you?

[abouttheauthor]

More importantly, who are you?