The Preserve is soft sci-fi, an easy read for a long weekend escape. I take the relationship between people and artificially intelligent beings and flip it from traditional sci-fi; answering a question I’ve long asked, “What if the AI doesn’t condemn us all to death after we turn it on?” My future is a utopia….
To Tinker Books, my beta readers, my kids, and Shannon, my love. Now you have to put up with Book 2!
Thaddeus Barley – an idealistic young man on the cusp of adulthood. From the village of Harvest, he is expected to follow his family’s traditional labours and become a farmer. But his ambitions will drive him in a different direction. He will breach the great barrier and see the other side. Hannah Weber – already…
The Preserve – A Novel, by Kai Üwe One young man leads his people on an incredible journey to answer the ultimate question, “Why are we here?” They should have been asking, “What is here?”
Four huge Preserves encage the remnants of humanity. The robots built them to save their creators from extinction. But now the whole program is forgotten after so many centuries. Inside Europa–1, a young man needs to know why the barrier exists. Once this harvest is complete he will lead a team from all five villages…
Life is pre-industrial in The Preserve. The people farm, mine, and craft much like their ancestors did, before the changes. Here we see a farm, in the distance are the mountains, and beyond them rising impossibly high is the barrier wall. The barrier encloses as much land as most of the country of Germany, so…