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ATDrake · 08-02-2017, 06:23 AM

Emergence by British author Ray Hammond (ISFDB, Wikipedia, SFE), a science journalist and futurist, is his standalone contemporary science fiction technothriller set ten minutes into the future, centred around an aggressively dominant corporation's deployment of a new satellite technology which connects up and stimulates information networks in a way which leads to the unexpected development of a new, potentially world-changing entity, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.

This was originally published in 2001 by Macmillan UK.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
Thomas Tye's phenomenal financial success is due to a secret known only to a very few at the top of his corporation.

But the monopolistic and increasingly bizarre activities of the mighty Tye Corporation have caught the attention of the UNISA - the United Nations' international security agency - and of famous biographer Haley Voss who wants to write an exposé of the suprisingly youthful-looking tycoon.

Commercial spying has reached new dimensions and the World Bank is concerned that, unrestrained, the Tye Corporation activities could destabilize the world's financial markets.

Then Thomas Tye announces that using a wholly new, benign and sustainable satellite technology he can change the world's weather for the benefit of all. As a demonstration, he promises to bring rain to end decades of drought in Ethiopia and he asks the people of the world to join him in delivering the world's biggest act of philanthropy.

But the output from the satellite technology is exciting the world's super-dense information networks in ways nobody could have foreseen and, as the UN closes in on a corporation with more power than any single nation, a new entity begins to emerge which changes everybody's plans...

08-02-2017, 06:23 AM	#1
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free (Kindle) Emergence by Ray Hammond [Sci-Fi Info Network Entity Technothriller] Emergence by British author Ray Hammond (ISFDB, Wikipedia, SFE), a science journalist and futurist, is his standalone contemporary science fiction technothriller set ten minutes into the future, centred around an aggressively dominant corporation's deployment of a new satellite technology which connects up and stimulates information networks in a way which leads to the unexpected development of a new, potentially world-changing entity, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint. This was originally published in 2001 by Macmillan UK. Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program) Description Thomas Tye's phenomenal financial success is due to a secret known only to a very few at the top of his corporation. But the monopolistic and increasingly bizarre activities of the mighty Tye Corporation have caught the attention of the UNISA - the United Nations' international security agency - and of famous biographer Haley Voss who wants to write an exposé of the suprisingly youthful-looking tycoon. Commercial spying has reached new dimensions and the World Bank is concerned that, unrestrained, the Tye Corporation activities could destabilize the world's financial markets. Then Thomas Tye announces that using a wholly new, benign and sustainable satellite technology he can change the world's weather for the benefit of all. As a demonstration, he promises to bring rain to end decades of drought in Ethiopia and he asks the people of the world to join him in delivering the world's biggest act of philanthropy. But the output from the satellite technology is exciting the world's super-dense information networks in ways nobody could have foreseen and, as the UN closes in on a corporation with more power than any single nation, a new entity begins to emerge which changes everybody's plans...