Volk Book One Of The Overseer Series

SETI has been searching the universe unsuccessfully for intelligent life since its inception. A group of one hundred thousand plus gamers called "Bellsters" test the theory of quantum entanglement in a worldwide experiment and establish an irrevocable first contact with an alien species. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia grants an AI named Sophia, developed by Hansen Robotics, citizenship in their kingdom. Spinners are mass marketed to the public as "must have" curiosities. What do these things have in common? Viktor Roper is about to find out as he enters into a desperate one-man death match in an attempt to prevent the complete annihilation of the human race.

SETI has been searching the universe unsuccessfully for intelligent life since its inception. A group of one hundred thousand plus gamers called "Bellsters" test the theory of quantum entanglement in a worldwide experiment and establish an irrevocable first contact with an alien species. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia grants an AI named Sophia, developed by Hansen Robotics, citizenship in their kingdom. Spinners are mass marketed to the public as "must have" curiosities. What do these things have in common? Viktor Roper is about to find out as he enters into a desperate one-man death match in an attempt to prevent the complete annihilation of the human race.

One Hundred years have passed since the Bellster’s made their historic test of quantum entanglement and accidentally caused the near annihilation of humanity. A compromise has been reached between humanity, mitochondria and the AI empire. Led by the literal and ridged figure known as The Overseer, humanity has changed. Human DNA has been re-sequenced. Genetic abnormalities that have plagued the human race have been eradicated. The resulting genetic changes have eradicated genetically caused mental, physical illnesses. The survivors live much longer, happier lives. The one hundred thousand or so survivors of the human race have elected a new leader, The Proctor. Under his guidance and with the blessing of The Overseer, direction has been given to recover as much of the rich cultural diversity of the human race as possible. The priority being in the arts and language. Maricella Vasquez leads the team tasked with that recovery. The human race is calmer now, healthier more peaceful. As a species we welcome this new way of life. With one defiant exception. Viktor Roper the alleged savior of the human race refuses to integrate completely with the new utopian society and lives in the wild. A devastating betrayal has pushed him mentally back to the edge. Feral and enhanced by genetic manipulation, fueled by rage, Viktor pushes his one hundred and fifty-year old body to its absolute limits and beyond. Wisely, The Overseer has left the Nano-memory retrieving implants in Viktor, in place. Only The Overseer knows his whereabouts, what he is capable of and, just in case, keeps him under close observation. Welcome back to the Planet Earth, post AI invasion. Things are about to get interesting.

A woman’s true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: “Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it.”—The New York Times Book Review In the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin’s reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With sharp detail and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts her arrest and the eighteen harrowing years she endured in Soviet prisons and labor camps, including two in solitary confinement. Her memoir is “a compelling personal narrative of survival” (The New York Times Book Review)—and one of the most important documents of Stalin’s brutal regime. “Deeply significant…intensely personal and passionately felt.”—Time “Probably the best account that has ever been published of…the prison and camp empire of the Stalin era.”—Book World Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward