The Tranquility Chip by Steve Semler My rating: Irrelevant... I'm the author! "The Tranquility Chip" story was suggested by developments in neuroscience and my consulting and HR work. A good chunk of what I do with adult learning and organizational effectiveness involves finding ways to help people overcome resistance or fear of change. That got [...]
Hazy, shifting Underhill sunlight filtered down through the trees around the Court of Stars. The Faerie Queen's gardens were in full bloom. A riot of color somehow made a grand harmony as each flower and leaf contributed its own brush stroke by merely existing. On this May morning, Gayle and Sheena walked with the Queen. [...]
The Tranquility Chip is a near-future science-fiction story that combines brain science, politics, espionage, cyberwarfare, military action, romance, and human interest in one novel. This future is less than 30 years away, and it is entirely possible under the current trajectories of science, technology, and politics. By accident of timing, the story is a [...]
All Forests are One now in print! All Forests are One Amazon Kindle ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXY6HDM All Forests are One paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1532747543 All Forests are One (Steve Semler) The faerie world doesn’t often concern itself with mortal affairs, but that changes when the Dark Court finds a hero standing in the way of its plans. [...]
I think everybody in the room was chipped, so the tension wasn’t as thick as you might imagine. Still, we were all highly “anticipatory.” Our devices alerted us to the received update as it came through our various service providers to each of us. We downloaded each file and checked it. I ran the comparisons [...]
