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At this point, I have to apologize—I just gave you a glimpse into the heart of the third Singularity novel with Miriam’s short story. Please erase her from your mind and sail back into the series with Eli, the painter who is the polar opposite of Miriam’s warrior in some ways and her kindred spirit in others.
When I set out to write the Singularity Series, I knew I would be writing these short stories to accompany it—there were just too many possibilities, too many dark corners that could only be illuminated by a different point-of-view than Eli, the boy who wanted to be a machine. What I didn’t expect was to fall so intensely in love with the characters of these side stories. With these four stories (Restore, Containment, Augment, Defiance) published, plus two more already written for future anthologies (Illustrated Robot Chronicles and the CLONES anthology), and one promised (for the MARS Chronicles), the Stories of Singularity are shaping up just as I'd hoped. (Astute readers should look for the characters to show up in the novels as well...)
Our world is zooming forward so fast—and so uncertainly—that sometimes I wonder if I’m writing fiction at all. Already we have human augmentation becoming a reality for our disabled veterans and citizens. Already our brightest minds are trying to develop Artificial Intelligence that’s truly intelligent—capable of reading emotions to comfort cancer patients or dreaming of electric sheep or simply making a salad. These are things happening now—five minutes in the future, who knows? The present is already radically different from the past, and I fully expect that exponential change to continue.
I firmly believe our biggest challenges ahead will lie in integrating technology into our lives while remembering what it means to be human. Stories have always been our way of explaining the world to ourselves and to understand what really lies inside that three pounds of meat and electricity between our ears. All my stories dabble in science, especially the science of the mind, but the Singularity series goes one step further, looking at that intersection of mind, body, and soul in a way that I hope will start some conversations… if only in my readers’ minds.
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THE SINGULARITY SERIES
young adult science fiction
What would you give to live forever?
Singularity Series
The Legacy Human (Book 1)
The Duality Bridge (Book 2)
The Stories of Singularity #1-4 (Novella Box Set)
The Illusory Prophet (Book 3)... coming 2016
Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.
The Legacy Human is the first in Susan Kaye Quinn’s new young adult science fiction series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world… and how technology will challenge us to remember what it means to be human.
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THE MINDJACK SAGA
young adult science fiction
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.
Mindjack Saga
Open Minds (Book 1)
Closed Hearts (Book 2)
Free Souls (Book 3)
Mindjack Short Story Collection (Novella Box Set)
(Audiobooks)
Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf's mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she's dragged deep into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.
There are three novels in the original Mindjack trilogy (Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free Souls), as well as five novellas that accompany the series... and plans for another trilogy in the works (see Susan’s latest novella, The Locksmith, for a peek at a new Mindjack character for the coming trilogy).
watch the live-action trailer
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THE ROYALS OF DHARIA
sweet royal romance
Romance, sword fights, and skyships
Royals of Dharia
Third Daughter (Book 1)
Second Daughter (Book 2)
First Daughter (Book 3)
Aniri is the Third Daughter of the Queen of Dharia—and she has zero royal duties. She’s just the backup daughter, in case her older sisters’ arranged marriages don’t quite work out. But then the impossible happens—a marriage proposal. From a barbarian prince in the north, no less. And if Aniri refuses, the threat of their new flying weapon might bring war. So she agrees, only to discover the prince has his own secrets… and that saving her country may end up breaking her heart.
This Bollywood-style royal romance takes you to an alternate East Indian world filled with skyships, saber duels, and lots of royal intrigue.
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THE DEBT COLLECTOR
sexy, gritty future-noir
What's your life worth on the open market?
Debt Collector
Season One
Season Two
(audiobook)
In this sexy, gritty future-noir, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more "worthy"... all while paying the price with black marks on their souls. Intended for ages 17+.
Watch the Debt Collector trailer on YouTube.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into royal fantasy romance and middle grade. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German, and featured in several anthologies.
She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity.
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