The Singularity at Persnickety Street (Digital Guy - Book One: Sci-fi, Robots, AI, and Humor)

Could onscreen AI characters be as real as people? Are chatbots in robot bodies alive?

Electronics engineer Bert Bertram might wonder about both those questions if he weren't so busy keeping the peace.

Cade appeared on the monitor in a brown pinstripe suit. "Your robot called me lizard-breath again," he said, rubbing his green snout.

"Did not," Felix said, carrying a desk that weighed as much as he did. "I told him his breath smelled like roadkill."

Welcome to Gold Henry, Maine — six streets, one embarrassingly small mountain, and a population best described as... treatment needed.

When Bert nearly burns down his barn and gets a call about a stolen body on the same morning, he should have hung up.

Damn it. Why didn't I hang up?

Instead, the military, corporate mercenaries, and every federal agency with an acronym descend on his broken-down barn—and Bert has to find a single path that will keep Cade, Felix, and his mother with malicious dementia safe.

SUBJECT IDENTIFIED: FEDERAL FUGITIVE BERT BERTRAM, LIKELY INVOLVED IN THEFT OF HIGHLY CLASSIFIED ANDROID.

So that doesn't work out.

Things spiral downward from there.

Thanks for checking out Digital Guy — Book One! 🙂