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The Archimedes Gambit

By Patrick Freivald & David Brin
The Archimedes Gambit by Patrick Freivald & David Brin digital book - Fable

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Teens from across time band together In the twenty-fourth century to stop a destructive AI threat in this action-packed science fiction adventure.

Technology has taken humanity far by the twenty-fourth century. Earth is free of war, disease, and crime. But when crises strikes far from home, the adults are powerless and the teens of the era need help. Luckily, there’s Operation Hourglass!

The alien species Tarn have come to Earth’s solar system to make a trade with humanity: they get Jupiter’s moon Europa, and humanity gets a planet of their choosing. To negotiate the treaty, Operation Hourglass assembles a team. From the year 2022 there’s Bronx high schooler Meagan Cohen; Kim Dae-Jung from 1930s Korea; Parrette, a fifteenth-century companion to Joan of Arc; and Karter, a cybernetically-enhanced boy from the Troubled Times, decades in Meagan’s future.

Before they can get down to business, disaster strikes. Sabotage unleashes the advanced artificial intelligence Archimedes, a rogue AI bent on killing anything that tries to stop its bid for freedom and dominance! Now the team must race across the solar system before Archimedes destroys time itself . . .

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About Patrick Freivald

Patrick Freivald is a four-time Bram Stoker Award–nominated author, a high school teacher, and a beekeeper specializing in hot pepper infused honey. A member of the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers, he’s always had a soft spot for slavering monsters of all kinds. He is the author of eight novels and dozens of short stories, from hyper-violent kickass thrillers to teen zombie melodramas. He lives in Western New York with his wife and pets.

David Brin

David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.

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