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The Singularity Trap
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The Singularity Trap is a 2018 science fiction novel by Dennis E. Taylor, the author of the Bobiverse books.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The novel takes place in 2150, when humanity is successfully settling the Solar System with a number of outposts and colonies on all the inner planets. However, Earth is overpopulated and undergoing rampant climate change, with rising sea levels claiming more and more land. The world is also in the middle of a new cold war between the United Earth Nations and the Sino-Soviet Empire. Global economy is in a deep recession, so jobs are scarce.In order to make some money for his family, Ivan Pritchard joins up with a crew of Asteroid Miners aboard the Mad Astra. Unfortunately, a series of fruitless tours have left the captain of the Astra with little choice but to hope that this tour will result in a good find, or he will be forced to sell the ship for pennies, and the crew would lose their stakes (signing up requires that crewmembers buy into the ship's shares). Fortunately, halfway through the tour, the Mad Astra happens upon a ridiculously metal-rich asteroid that guarantees a life of leisure for the entire crew. Next to the asteroid, they also find a small one that seems to give off readings of transuranic elements, something that shouldn't be possible. Examining the asteroid, Ivan finds a strange object that he picks up. Suddenly, his arm is covered by some gray substance. The crew manage to cut off the sleeve of his spacesuit and get him back to the ship. The next day, Ivan wakes up to find that the same arm has turned metal. It's still fully usable and feels like his own arm, but it's no longer flesh. He is isolated and, upon agreement from Ivan, the ship's doctor amputates the limb and preserves it for study. At the same time, the Astra's captain notifies UEN about the find and the situation with Ivan, resulting in a quarantine. Oh, and Ivan's limb reappears the next day, as the nanites making up the metal arm simply cut their way through the ship to get back to Ivan. With each passing day, more and more of Ivan is being replaced by metal.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Many civilizations are destroyed by their own AI creations, who them proceed to expand throughout the galaxy and wipe out any organic life they encounter. As a counter, the surviving organic races "upload" their minds into metal bodies and try to both wage war against the "artificials" (or "arts") and to seek out other organics and to either turn them into "uploads" or wipe them out and build defensive outposts in their systems. Humans keep their AIs strictly limited in order to keep humans in the decision chain. | |
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Absent Aliens: It turns out that the Fermi Paradox is real. While intelligent life is surprisingly common in the galaxy, most races tend to fail to pass one of the several "Great Filters" and die out. The three common filters are nuclear war, global ecological disaster due to over-industrialization, and AI rebellion. Only one of those has repercussions for the rest of the galaxy, as the AIs decide that all organic life has to go and start wiping it out wherever they find it. | |
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