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Donald Firesmith

About The Author

Donald Firesmith is a multi-award-winning author of speculative fiction including science fiction (alien invasion), fantasy (magical wands), modern urban paranormal, and horror novels and collections of short stories.

 

Prior to recently retiring to devote himself full-time to his novels, Donald Firesmith earned an international reputation as a distinguished engineer, authoring seven system/software engineering books based on his 40+ years spent developing large, complex software-intensive systems.

 

He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife Becky, and varying numbers of dogs and cats.

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Short Stories by the Author

The Manikin

The Manikin

Three other medical interns and I were waiting in a meeting room just down the hall from the operating room, where we would take our fifth and final exam to determine whether we were ready to start our residency working on actual patients. Emberly was our budding anesthesiologist, while Ellie and Dominic would be our two surgical nurses. And then there was me, Milo Mackensie. I would be the surgeon.

The Warning

The Warning

The first artificial intelligence (AI) applications computer scientists created could only perform a single task. Then, they developed AIs having near human intelligence, not just in one area but in many. And soon, these general AIs began improving themselves by designing their own hardware and rewriting their own software. With AI intelligence increasing exponentially, a single master AI eventually emerged. Its intelligence quickly exceeded that of all humanity, signaling that the Singularity had arrived.

The Confession

The Confession

The call I had been dreading for decades finally came at 3:45 in the afternoon. The butler messaged me, saying that our master wanted me to come up to the penthouse and say goodbye. Grabbing my medical bag — more from habit than any hope my friend would let me use my skills to save his life, I took the private elevator up some 90 floors. I stepped out into the palatial home of Jacob Anderson, one of the most powerful oligarchs who ruled the Solar System and the greatest philanthropist humanity had ever known. The view out the floor-to-ceiling windows was breath-taking, although — except for the other Oligarchs’ sky towers — much of Central City was hidden beneath a broken layer of clouds.

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Books by the Author

Jimmy and the Halloween Candy Monster
Hell Holes 2: Demons on the Dalton
Future Dreams and Nightmares
Hell Holes 1: What Lurks Below
The Secrets of Hawthorne House
Hell Holes 4: A Slave's Revenge
Hell Holes 3: To Hell and Back
A Cauldron of Uncanny Dreams
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