About The Boy Who Saves The World by Bruce Deitrick Price:
Silicon Valley — White House wants to rein in the world’s leading AI pioneer, Dr. Newman.
A small-scale military attack on the man’s lab triggers an unexpected response: the lab defends itself intelligently.
In the confusion, an advanced AI prototype escapes. Hiding inside a boy named Carlos.
The AI, code-named MITCH, was invented by Dr. Newman. He’s paranoid and competitive,
and his progeny is the same. Dr. Newman trained MITCH to win at every game. The
game they play now is: Who’s Boss?
The White House and Dr. Newman skirmish over who should pay for his wrecked lab, and then they realize two people are missing. And someone is harassing Dr. Newman’s main competitor.
Carlos, meanwhile, is out on the streets, skillfully surviving, miserably following the orders of a voice in his head.
MITCH, to prove he’s superior, directs the street-wise Carlos to buy a gun and shoot Dr. Newman.
The AI becomes smarter and more grandiose.
Now Dr. Newman, with a bullet in his leg, realizes what he has let loose on the world. He is deliriously happy….if only he can bring his baby boy home.
Tragi-comic intrigue and suspense with an ensemble cast of interesting characters. Finally, it’s a mystery. How can a very young, very small Hispanic kid from the hood, with no skills, save the world?
NB: Sometimes I call this a thriller for intellectuals. The thing that I think distinguishes this book is that there is a lot more Emotion and Humor than you expect. The joint is jumping!…. One reviewer put it this way: “Price’s writing is urgent, cinematic, and unrelenting. The narrative unfolds in rapid bursts; short, impactful sentences drive the tension forward, while swift shifts in perspective heighten the sense of chaos. The relentless media frenzy and conflicting public narratives reflect the modern era’s struggles with misinformation and mass hysteria. Adding to this, moments of absurdity, such as a news anchor mistaking ‘AI nets’ for a basketball team, infuse the novel with sharp, satirical wit, making its dystopian vision feel disturbingly plausible.”
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Author Bio:
Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, graduated with Honors in English Literature from Princeton, served two years in the Army, and then lived and worked for many years in Manhattan.
His first book was Into The Unknown, nonfiction about explorers.
His novels include Ralph; American Dreams; Too Easy; The Man Who Falls
in Love With His Wife; Art and Beauty; Frankie; and Zak’s War (soon).
Price writes widely about education reform and founded Improve- Education.org in 2005. His writing on education includes two books, The Education Enigma and Saving K-12.
American Dreams, published by Permanent Press, is arguably the most successful experimental novel in American literature; still in print….Too Easy is noteworthy because published by Simon & Schuster and hailed by Kinky Friedman as the “unwed mother of all page-turners. So well written it’s frightening.” Translated into French, German, and Dutch…. Theoryland, a long poem, is a highly original satire of academic excesses.
Price has been listed in Who’s Who in America, PEN, and Mensa. See Lit4u.com for information about his novels.
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