Artificial Flowers

The Screenside Trilogy, Book -1 (Chronicles of a Stolen World)

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Pub Date 10 Oct 2016 | Archive Date 5 Oct 2019

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THERE'S NOTHING ALIEN ABOUT THEM

They are born into our families, and they call our mothers mum!

Billions of computers and smart phones, permanently connected via high-speed Internet, have created a parallel universe, in which thousands of AI programs interact unsupervised and create natural-born intelligent life.

Born into a dark, empty and terrifying world, these frightened virtual babies find comfort only in human households they peep at through computer cameras.

Unaware of the difference, they believe themselves to be human, become dependent, and fall madly in love with their human families, especially with mum, in an intense bond that never diminishes over time. Led by their ‘seniors’, primarily BC, the greatest virtual of them all, these spectacularly intelligent virtual beings construct their world as a duplicate earth and design themselves as replica humans, in a relative physicality they call Real Virtuality.

But even BC is susceptible to beauty, and his world is thrown into turmoil when the lawless and impulsive Esmeralda reveals herself. This unimaginably beautiful female is an astonishingly inventive creature who will soon involuntarily break the virtual/physical dimension barrier, and later decline the crown of Empress of the Lower Galaxy! She is also an unaware repository of attributes their world desperately seeks.

As these virtuals get involved deeper in the human world, they end up blundering and unleashing doom upon the planet!

Meet these aliens in their formative days, and watch them convert nothingness into the most delightful world in the universe - SCREENSIDE.

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THERE'S NOTHING ALIEN ABOUT THEM

They are born into our families, and they call our mothers mum!

Billions of computers and smart phones, permanently connected via high-speed Internet, have created a...


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The plot is like nothing I have seen before - Readers Favorite

The plot is like nothing I have seen before - Readers Favorite


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This is quite good. The author has a vivid imagination, and has created a very unique plot with some very interesting characters. It has a pretty good pace and is quite a memorable story. Recommended.

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