Inebriated space travel is ill advised...
....is what it said on the first page of the Sentient Coalition’s official intergalactic travel manual, which happened to be conveniently wedged under the seat of an incredibly intoxicated alien who just crashed on Earth.
The alien, hereinafter known as Jopp, landed his ship in an abandoned city lot with all the grace of an anvil. After extracting himself from the impact crater, Jopp drunkenly shoved his way through the gathering crowd, a. . .
Inebriated space travel is ill advised...
....is what it said on the first page of the Sentient Coalition’s official intergalactic travel manual, which happened to be conveniently wedged under the seat of an incredibly intoxicated alien who just crashed on Earth.
The alien, hereinafter known as Jopp, landed his ship in an abandoned city lot with all the grace of an anvil. After extracting himself from the impact crater, Jopp drunkenly shoved his way through the gathering crowd, a. . .
Two quick notes.
1. We have officially moved to the Draft Stage and need to start building a community of Readers and potential Backers! (previously, this group has been almost exclusively made up of Inkshares authors interested in submitting an entry for possible inclusion in the anthology)
2. We have a temporary cover! (check it out)
For the past five years, Sam Archer’s job as a middle-aged computer programmer for the "Society to Protect Humanity" was to use rented time at the largest computer in the world to answer questions. Mainly, his job was to ask the AI running on the massively parallel computer, "How do we protect humanity’s survival far into the future?"
He fed it petabytes of data - about history, physics, politics, chemistry... - and trained his state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms . . .
For the past five years, Sam Archer’s job as a middle-aged computer programmer for the "Society to Protect Humanity" was to use rented time at the largest computer in the world to answer questions. Mainly, his job was to ask the AI running on the massively parallel computer, "How do we protect humanity’s survival far into the future?"
He fed it petabytes of data - about history, physics, politics, chemistry... - and trained his state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms . . .
