by Guy Haley
Book 1 in the Richards & Klein series, published 2011
Publisher: Angry Robot
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Meet Richards and Klein – the Holmes and Watson of the 22nd century.
Except that Richards is a highly advanced artificial intelligence, and Klein his German ex-military cyborg partner. Their first case takes them into the renegade digital realm known as Reality 36 and through the Great Firewall of China, in search of a missing Artificial Intelligence Rights activist. What they find there will threaten every reality.
Richards – a Level 5 AI with a PI fetish – and his partner, a decommissioned German military cyborg, are on the trail of a murderer, but the killer has hidden inside an artificial reality. Richards and Klein must stop him before he becomes a god – for the good of all the realms.
The story takes place some hundred and fifty years in the future after the AI wars.
The detective firm in Reality 36 has the name “Richards & Klein” on its doors, which exist in both real and virtual space. The year is 2129, and the world has definitely moved on from 2011. The Mr. Klein, of Richards & Klein, is Otto Klein. He’s ex-military. Richards is a Class 5 AI, one of the most powerfully intelligent AIs remaining that didn’t go insane.
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