Artificial Evil (Book 1 of The Techxorcist) by Barnes Colin F

Author:Barnes, Colin F. [Barnes, Colin F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Gerry has to sacrifice everything he loves in order to save it, and artificial intelligences, violence, head of the lottery, Gerry has to do the unthinkable: willingly leave the city. What he finds in the abandoned lands will shatter his perception of what it means to be human. Everything he had been told before was a lie.In a deadly world of conspiracy, Artificial Evil (Book 1 of The Techxorcist series) is a futuristic, inexplicably finds himself the next on the list.Something's wrong with the system. A deadly artificial intelligence has breached security. Gerry has just 7 days to live. Forced off the grid, high-stakes thrill ride. In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city run by a shadowy benefactor known only as The Family. Each week the death lottery claims more lives and Gerry Cardle, and time is running out.
Publisher: Anachron Press
Published: 2014-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

“Sure. I don’t fully understand it, but I’ll tell you what I know. Afterwards.” Enna reached out and grabbed his avatar and flung him at the squidlike thing on the Dome.

He crashed into the 3D model, and his own avatar flickered as the VR system struggled to draw the graphics. Inside the model he saw the data flow into the city. The system represented these as brown paper packages the size of shoe boxes floating through transparent tubes, which ran from the top of the Dome and down into the various building settlements of the city. Curiously there was no data—or packages—coming the other way. Whatever the AI wanted, it certainly wasn’t taking anything away.

Scanning the thing took just a few seconds of thought. Gerry imagined a number of Helix-based commands and sent them floating towards the AI. These were represented by tridents. The weapons slammed into the creature and, through their metal poles, sent lightning back to Gerry’s avatar. He sighed. “Are these pointless graphics really necessary? It’d be much quicker if I just patched in remotely.”

“Shush! It’s fun. Less talk, more extraction, code monkey.”

Eventually, through the slow graphical process, Gerry got his first look at the AI’s code. It didn’t appear to be particularly elegant or clever. A library of functions ran sequentially, sending out data packets of information. Gerry attached his consciousness to one of the packages and looked inside. They weren’t encrypted, or Enna had somehow bypassed the encryption through the VR system. On each data parcel, Seca’s ID blazed like a beacon. Unsurprising, Gerry thought. The data inside, however, appeared to be unreadable.

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