Successful but lonely engineer Jennifer Valentine releases advanced AI personal assistants online to revolutionize the internet of things. But her softbots, called NODs, go rogue and she must save the national power grid and the nuclear arsenal from disaster. With her own consciousness uploaded online, she searches for the leader of the NODs and unexpectedly finds genuine intimacy for the first time in her life. Back in her lab, she must decide: erase the entire NOD world she has come to know? Bill Adams (writing as William X. Adams and William A. Adams) is a cognitive psychologist who left the academic life for the information technology industry to find out if the mind is like a computer. He writes nonfiction in philosophical psychology, and psychological science fiction to dramatize what he discovered. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
