Extinction series by Ken Barrett (#1,3,5)
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Overview: Ken Barrett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a Design Engineer for over thirty years in Silicon Valley. He is a lifelong biker (motorcyclist), and an accomplished martial artist with advanced black-belt degrees in Tae Kwon Do, Chinese Kenpo, Hapkido, and Shotokan. These days he is retired and living in Colorado, where he spends summers riding the roads of America, and survives the snowy winters sequestered in his office writing stories like this one.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Departure
Liam Collins never wanted to be a hero or save humanity; he just wanted to be left alone.
After centuries of war and climate change, the world’s nations have fallen and civilization is on the verge of collapse. Within what was once the state of Colorado, only two walled city-states remain. In the south, Pike City is at war with a loose confederation of rebellious tribes ensconced within the Rocky Mountains, while in the north, Flatiron City strives to remain neutral by selling weapons equally to both sides.
Liam works in Flatiron City developing the technology that is bartered to keep the peace. But his simple life and the delicate balance his city maintains abruptly falters when astronomers predict an impending solar flare that will end all life on Earth.
Under threats of torture and death, Liam is forced to work on an ambitious project to prevent complete human extinction by allowing an elite few to escape to the stars. But should only the worst of us be allowed to survive or is there a more radical option? Working alone against an entire army puts Liam in an untenable position where he must battle brute force with strategy. As he slowly draws and executes his plans, he wonders, is losing our humanity in the effort to save our species too high of a cost to pay?
3. Damnation
Malice, corruption, and war have pushed humanity to the edge of extinction. The last vestiges of mankind huddle within a few subterranean enclaves, hoping to survive a massive solar flare that could burn all life from the planet.
As civilization collapses, a violent religious cult is born that believes the coming inferno is sent by their God to purge the sins of mankind. Their army of the Scarred Faithful stands ready to conquer and burn those that do not adhere to their beliefs.
Liam Collins is a sentient android that appears human in every way. Only a select few know this fact, and in a world where technology is distrusted and feared, he needs to keep it that way. Liam is both clever and resourceful, but in the face of prejudice within his shelter, can he find a way to stop the approaching army of violent zealots? In humanity’s final war, how much of himself must he sacrifice to save those he loves?
5. Destination
Liam, Rose, Jack, and the rest of the android family return for the conclusion of the Extinction series.
Do androids dream? They shouldn’t, but a vision compels Liam to travel west to a city that stands above the western sea, surrounded by the ruins of a forgotten civilization. Upon arrival he is asked to build more of his kind, but will they be slaves or free people?
Left behind, Rose becomes the matriarch of a family founded by the son of her best friend. But after 200 years, the birthrate has fallen, and the progeny she cared for is gone; without a purpose, what will she do?
In a distant part of the galaxy, Jack and his siblings search for advanced civilizations; but an alien entity intercedes to forcibly return them to Earth, where they will join Rose and travel west, following Liam.
As the androids gather, they discover that humanity is developing uncanny psychic abilities. How great will their dangerous powers grow? And what will become of the androids once they are no longer needed, if they survive at all?
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