Humanity is gone. In their absence, robot-kind has grown and raised up its own civilization. I recently posted on my Facebook page about some of my upcoming projects, including (but not limited to Ruins & Robots. So, for those of you wondering, here's a little more about what that's all about.
Ruins and Robots is an upcoming series of books that I am working on. Like Heroism and Other Lies, these will be shorter books (between 15,000 and 30,000 words).
The series focuses on MAI, a humanizer robot assigned to an excavation team. Set in a post-human world, excavation teams are groups of robots that go into the ruins of humanity looking for any useful information or technology that may have been lost to robot-kind during the dark age. As a humanizer robot, it is MAI's job to find digital copies of human personalities and memories and then activate them. These copies become projections of their human-selves within MAI's processor. MAI then can interact with the persona to try to get them to tell her where the team might find something of use.
Despite taking place post-humanity, the story isn't meant to be an inherently pessimistic one. This isn't a future that I think would actually come to pass. There are a lot of things that make the premise inconstant with reality. But it's more about the way we (as humans) project ourselves on our creations and the world around us as well as about the things we leave as our legacy.
The robots in the story, despite being robots, mostly feel fairly human. Perhaps, as the stories go on, this will be ever more the case.
I have rough drafts written of an introductory short story and the first book. I've got a very detailed outline for the second book. I have a much rougher outline for several books beyond that. It's my hope to release the short story and books 1 and 2 in October. We'll see what actually happens.
I look forward to sharing more about Robots & Ruins with you as we draw closer to then.
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