Publisher's Synopsis
The first book published by Gary K. Martin within the military science-fiction series Singularity. Taking place a few years in the future, prominent industrial leaders come together in secrecy to develop Artificial Intelligence in a controlled environment where the machines that they experiment on have never come into contact with humans.The story follows the perspective of the machines that are the test subject of the "Vault Project," the government agents that created them, and a protagonist that seemingly has no relation to the main storyline. The Singularity Series is a prophetic chronicling of the world as we know it after the birth of A.I., as told by multiple different points of view and perspectives, in order to show a thoroughly-detailed example of how every aspect of human life will change - and never return to normal - after what society has coined the "Technological Singularity."The author claims to have no plan for how the series will end because, in his own words, "After the birth of A.I., nothing will ever be the same, and we have no hope of turning back the clock. It only makes sense then, that the series will be endless, because we can never get back to normal once that happens." The first book in the series - Conception, takes place immediately following the birth of A.I. and takes place over the course of just the first few days of its birth.
