Invincible nanotech-driven monsters are swarming through the darkness between the stars with only one goal: exterminate all organic life. But how can Ben trust an alien AI to save humanity when AI killing machines destroyed his family?
Ben has just completed a hard day’s work blowing up psychotic warmechs, when he’s acclaimed a hero and sent off to Ceres, an icy planetoid orbiting beyond Mars. He sees this as a promotion – his boss sees this as a way of getting him killed. Once he gets to Ceres he discovers his imminent demise is the least of his problems.
Powered by nanotechnology a million years ahead of anything humanity possesses, the Destroyers have already wiped out dozens of more advanced species across the Galaxy. And now we’ve caught their eye. The only faint hope for the survival of the human race is Kay, a young woman transformed into a human/AI hybrid who his bosses also want to destroy. The AI is of alien origin, and gives her superhuman powers. This helps her outwit the people trying to kill her. Ben would rather just shoot them.
He’s also skeptical about the mysterious alien AI. Humanity’s own experiments with advanced AI led to the rise of the crazed warmechs that destroyed his family. But as it turns out, nothing is quite what it seems, and everyone has a hidden agenda.
Quantum Whispers is Book 1 of the Quantum Ascension series: fast-paced hard science fiction about advanced alien AI — both good and bad — and the fight for humanity’s survival against an invincible enemy.