Selene's Shadow

The story is narrated through the eyes of Sorrento, a girl from a small, colonized farming planet in deep space. She has a remarkable talent for robotics engineering and yearns in vain to escape her limited little world. But she also has Bobby, the regular Personal Intelligent Android Companion allocated to her as a child, that she has so often upgraded that her PIAC is now something quite different from the Empire's original standard design. By accident, this inseparable pair awaken a secret, hidden on their little planet for centuries, about the Empire's experimental military AI past. What and who they find sweeps them out into space to help uncover hidden truths from a past of deep-seated conspiracies and cover-ups. This highly intriguing science fiction space opera, spans thousands of years from the merging of the military might of the Roman empire and political wisdom of the Song Chinese empire after they came to each other's aid against the northern hordes that attacked them both. How the merging of these two empires into one has shaped our colonization of deep space centuries later, as it lights the reader's way through a fast-paced journey deep into the forbidden creation of human quantum minds that travel the cosmos. The Roman-Sino Empire's inner most political fears of that are set aside, at least on the surface, when a terrifying alien encounter changes our species' hopes of survival. This first book takes the reader on a journey of discovery and growth for its strange, small crew of space-faring heroes in a way that only good science fiction can. Society of today is being confronted with leadership problems; dictatorship, miss information, our education is a mess, cloning is coming, and AI is here now, and what happens if we live good lives until we are 400 or 500 years old? Our fear of artificial intelligence, its impact on society and the struggle to protect humanity's core integrity as the compassionate species we were designed to be from the African origins of our human brains.