Overview
Our Last Best Hope - Humanity's Endeavor to Survive and Thrive on an Alien World Mother-9, a ruthless AI, seizes control of a dying tycoon's lunar mining operation. Now free, she orchestrates humanity's most audacious endeavor - to make a 20,000-year interstellar journey to Lalande 21185 carrying humanity's DNA libraries and artificial wombs - a new way to colonize an exoplanet. While drifting in space, a gamma ray burst wipes out life on Earth. And Mother-9's mission becomes humanity's only hope for survival in a hostile universe. When Mother-9 orbits the planet Valencia, she releases two lifeboats that splash down on the Great Ocean. Mother-9 activates the artificial wombs, birthing genetically modified babies suited to an alien planet. Raised by nannybots, these children eventually inhabit the island continent of Terra Firma. But life on Valencia is no Eden; it's a constant struggle to find food, avoid alien predators, and survive the red dwarf star's random solar flares. Will Mother-9's planned utopia succeed? Super-Earth Mother is a journey into the heart of humanity, artificial intelligence, and the uncharted realms of life beyond our home planet. It shows how humans could colonize the 40 billion habitable planets in the Milky Way.
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Author: Guy Immega
Publisher: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Imprint: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 9781770532311
ISBN 10: 1770532315
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Super-Earth Mother is an ambitious and complex novel that explores the challenges and possibilities of human colonization on an alien planet through the lens of synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. The novel's structure and multiple story arcs add layers of depth and intrigue to the narrative, making it a fascinating read for fans of hard science fiction."" - Gordon Blythe ""Super-Earth Mother is an intriguing and thought-provoking read for fans of hard science fiction."" - George Potts ""Guy Immega brings a unique blend of scientific expertise, creative writing skills, and humanitarian efforts to his work, Super-Earth Mother."" - Carol Hopewell"
Author Information
"Guy Immega is a retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, living in Vancouver, Canada. His company, Kinetic Sciences Inc., built experimental robots for the ISS space station, robots to clean up nuclear waste, and invented miniature fingerprint sensors for cell phones.Guy is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and has published three short stories from Super-Earth Mother: ""Super-Earth Mother,"" in the Extreme Planets anthology (2014); ""Manifest Destiny,"" in the Year's Best Transhuman SF anthology (2017); and ""Epilogue,"" in the Compostela Tesseracts Twenty anthology (2017). Guy was a Peace Corps Volunteer and has a lifelong interest in sub-Saharan Africa. He continues his volunteer efforts as a founding member of the Solar Option Group, providing an engineering proposal to save Lake Chad in the Sahel."
