The Simulacrum ISBN-13 : 979-8328077170 Copyright 2024, Peter Cawdron, 391 pages, English What happens when an AI computer system decides it wants something? Well, it immediately becomes worthless as a computer because there is now an inherent bias. That “want” is also called “volition” and it exists in all known life. A want, …
Peter Cawdron, 2024, 366 pages. These are frightening times. Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu seem set on a course that could easily lead to wider wars in Europe and the Middle East. We’re already witness to the terrifying impact of drones and artificial intelligence in vast areas surrounding the conflicts in the Ukraine and Gaza, …
The Artifact Peter Cawdron 307 pp, copyright 2023 Peter Cawdron An archeologist from Britain (OK, Wales; I know there’s a world of difference between Bristol and Cardiff) has heard rumors of a strange object in a remote village in Libya, Harat Zuwayyah. This is in the deepest part of the Sahara. Doctor Susan Taylor, along …
Peter Cawdron Publisher : Independently published (October 9, 2023) 354 pp For sheer awe and wonder, it’s hard to top Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. I read it when it first came out, fifty years ago, I was utterly mesmerized. It’s the sort of world-building that Clarke excelled at, and the mystery …
The Art of War by Peter Cawdron copyright 2023 ASIN : B0C47ZT9QM Mark is off to a roller-coaster start. He is in Paris, and falls in love, something that has been known to happen. He is America’s leading astronaut, a legend in the corps and with the public because of his luck in …
Peter Cawdron, (c) 2023, 415pp Anthony is a seemingly unremarkable teen apprentice to an chemist/herbalist/alchemist at an apothecary stall on the outskirts of Westminster, a small town not far from the city of London. Westminster, like Anthony, seems usual, but like Anthony, has a feature that makes it rather extraordinary. About a quarter mile from …
Now available on Amazon. Kindle Edition, 457 pages Published May 20th 2022 Science Fiction / Futurism can be described thusly: Take a society. Tweak it in some way. A new technology. New methods of communication. Different approaches to education, or a new religion. Advances in scientific knowledge. Or, of course, meeting intelligent life from the …
Jury Duty Peter Cawdron 289 pages, Kindle Edition First published May 28, 2021 Antarctica has always had a special fascination for me. I grew up with the tales of Shackleton and Amundsen, and followed the exploits of Peary. I watched all the nature specials on the place, including, of course, Attenborough’s. More recently I was …