Quarterfinalist at the LA Screenplay Awards and script is being finalized to be shown to directors and producers. Read an award winning Reader’s Favorite original YA along the lines of iRobot meets Body Snatchers. Fans of Phillip Dick, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth will enjoy her stories.ENTER A WORLD WHERE THE LINE BETWEEN ROBOT AND MAN IS BLURRED.YA Cyberpunk … IS BLURRED.
YA Cyberpunk Dystopia and a part of M.Black’s Enter Tomorrow brand.
Set in the robot cyberpunk year 2055 in British Columbia, Canada, where humans are part robotic and robots are becoming more humanlike, the line dividing the two is becoming less clear. When the nation is controlled by a popular online program, those that deviate risk their lives. But that never stopped Fione. Filled with haunting questions of consciousness and artificial intelligence, identity and self-awareness, politics and love, life and death, the reader will be engaged in an entertaining story filled with futuristic technology.
This robot cyberpunk will appeal to fans of Divergent, Configured, Freelancer, iRobot, The Glitch, Blade Runner, artificial intelligence, robotics, and futuristic technology will enjoy this story about two young, but strong female heroines who must save the fragile system crumbling around them.
“ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I’VE READ IN A WHILE. AS AN AVID ISAAC ASIMOV READER I WOULD PUT EXOTIQA RIGHT IN WITH HIM, WITH A LITTLE MORE ACTION” -Avid Isaac Asimov Reader
“SIMILAR THEMES TO ISAAC ASIMOV’S WORK, BUT MORE GENTLE AND HAS MORE ACTION.” -Amazon Reviewer.
“VERY WELL WRITTEN! SO HARD TO PUT DOWN!” -Amazon Reviewer
“WOW, WOW, WOW! NOTHING SHORT OF GREAT!” -Amazon Reviewer
“THE STORY HAS SEVERAL DIFFERENT LAYERS GOING ON AND I ENJOY THAT LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY. THIS AUTHOR HAS DONE A WONDERFUL JOB OF OVERLAYING HER WORLD ONTO OURS. I WILL BE READING A LOT MORE OF THIS AUTHOR’S WORK.” -Amazon Reviewer
“ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR BOOKS!” -Amazon Reviewer
“IF ANYONE KNOWS ME OR FOLLOWS MY REVIEWS THEN YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE A GOOD DYSTOPIAN OR SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL. SO WHEN I KEPT HEARING ABOUT EXOTIQA, I JUST HAD TO READ IT. AND BOY, AM I EVER GLAD I DID!” -Amazon Reviewer
EXOTIQA – Book 1
THIRTY – Book 2
SPHERE – Book 3
…Elon Musk announced the NUERAL LACE, a real life interface for the brain, designed by Telsa and SpaceX. My book was written in 2015, released in 2017. My interface is the SLAB. EXOTIQA is the program downloaded into the SLAB. Real life and my fiction are eerily similar!
REVIEWS:
“The difference of narration between the eyes of a human and that of a robot is really fun. It is distinct and well thought out, of how each being would feel and see things.” -Francine
“The book explores a new avenue in robotics with emotional attachments starting to develop between robots and even between humans and bots. On their quest to prevent the destruction of the world as we know it, our heros set off on a journey to ImaTech to destroy Exotiqa, meeting up with some interesting characters and becoming involved in a lot of action including an exciting car chase worthy of any Speilberg movie. In fact. I thoroughly enjoyed the book despite it being designed to appeal to a young adult audience, but then I am big kid at heart. In my opinion this is a great read for anyone of any age. A warining shot across the bows of AI advocates. Marvelous!” -Ken
I read the entire exotica series! It was awesome. Looking for the next series that you wrote, Quantum State. You are one of the few female writers of science fiction that really gets it … I am more into the science fiction from a woman’s POV because it differs from what men think. You have different point of view. You solve problems differently and think of interactions with people differently. That is what makes the whole orbit. That is why I like your writing so much! -Mike Brown
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Imagine living in a world where humans are becoming like robots and flexbots are becoming like humans. Well Fione, Maci and Pix do just that. The humans have what they call slabs inserted into their brain and a device in their palms. A slab work more like computers and palms work more like a phone or tablet. Fione uses her slab for things like working with files and her palm for surfing the internet and texting her friends.
Maci has runaway/escaped from ImaTech and her creator. Maci is a Flexbot and all the bots are being downloaded with a program called Exotiqa and Maci wants no part of this new program. She has seen what it has done to her friend Thirty. He no longer recognizes her as his friend; he no longer feels the same way about her as he did before. Exotiqa takes away the part that makes him Thirty.
And now the human world has gotten a new update, Exotiqa including most of Fione’s friends. With this new update humans are now acting like robots. They no longer have any feelings. They walk around like zombies. But Fione and Pix have refused to download Exotiqa and are very glad they have after seeing all their friends.
Now Maci, Fione and Pix are all on the run from the people and Flexbots at ImaTech. Of course neither one wants to be downloaded with Exotiqa but Maci has other reasons for running as well. Someone has put out a hit on Maci’s life. But they are not only fighting for their own lives now they are fighting for the whole country, the whole world as well as their family and friends, human and flexbot alike.
If anyone knows me or follow my reviews then you know that I love a good dystopian or science fiction novel. So when I kept hearing about Exotiqa I just had to read it. And boy am I ever glad I did. I loved it beyond reason. I kept seeing it play out in my head like a movie. I wanted to see it on the big screen. The world of Exotiqa is so amazing I don’t have any words for it.
Maci reminds me of the characters Leeloo from the movie The Fifth Element and Starman from the movie Starman. Leeloo or Starman know how to speak to humans or their language. I loved watching them learn how to talk and pick up human characteristics like I loved reading about Maci and seeing her in mind trying to be sarcastic or making facial features.
I would recommend Exotiqa to anyone who loves science fiction and/or dystopian books. Come join Fione, Maci and Pix to see if they can save the world!
I normally open a review with a quote from the book I am reviewing, and without a doubt there are plants to choose from as the dog eared pages reflect. However, on that score, I’m coming out of left field with this quote:
“The needs of the many …outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.” [Spock tells Kirk towards the end of “The Wrath of Khan”-1982]
This quote more than any of the ones from the book sums up the ethical conundrum presented to the senscient beings inhabiting British Columbia Canada in 2055. What started as a wonderful idea to be “connected” to others in a world that is now partly run by Flexbots, and humans are becoming more like robots. Teenaged Fione and her Flexbot friend Pix meet Maci- a Flexbot who has developed beyond her programming and is now convinced the newest version of the Exotiqa program could allow ImaTech to take over the world!
Through extremely intelligent character driven dialogue, we are drawn into a world of Cerebral Slabs and megalomania as sometimes, there is no easy choice to make no matter the outcome could bring. Fione, Maci, Pix and Thirty will echo of current events and memories of how hard it is to grow up.
This is a book for SciFi “geeks” of all stripes; of teenaged angst, of high school boredom that simply comes with the age, and dreams of saving the world. My only problem is there are some definite spelling errors that can detract from the story. Recommended.4/5
[disclaimer:I won the series directly from the author, and am voluntarily reviewing them]
Great Page Turner – I Want More!
I was entirely captured by this book. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. One reason that I read YA books is that they tend to be on the clean and cozy side. This one is surely that. The story is riveting and complex, I needed to take my time and savor it. There is plenty of action, love and robotics! The story has several different layers going on and I enjoy that level of complexity. This author has done a wonderful job of overlaying her world onto ours. I will be reading a lot more of this author’s work
An accidentally rogue human, who used to hunt violent bots, a FlexBot with Consciousness, a MetaBot and some geeks save the world from a program designed to erase and redo everything: Exotiqa.
An edge of your seat action adventure. The characters speak from various perspectives. Someone who is a tech phobe has close friends who are various types of bots. Dedicated super nerds are both rebels and somewhat obsessed geniuses. Average citizens buying into a Progom without really recognizing it.
The differing perspectives and sympathetic characters help to make it clear that sometimes folks who might later be decried as collaborators are really just everyday folks who are looking to make their lives a little easier and better.
Some haunting parallels to the Third Reich.
In the end, this band of friends and family are The People.
How many are humans, how many are bots or bot hybrids, and what that might mean for their common future remains a mystery I hope to find part of the adventures in the next books in this series.